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I know Anne!!! lol Suddenly saw the time, hence no proper synopsis! Daisy

Just made it there Daisy!! Ann Glos

Two completely different books and a very brief synopsis. Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella Hilarious chic lit - latest in the series. Ice Road by Gillian Slovo 'An epic intertwining of lives and vast political events....wonderfully evocative'. Set in St Petersburg, Russia. Classic Persuasion by Jane Austen

Boosting this up in the hope that TOR will be back in time to add before 5pm. If not I hope she will forgive me for going ahead as planned. Ann Glos

Michelle, there will be 24 hours to vote. vote announced 5pm UK time Monday 23rd. Ann Glos

Ann - With the time difference, 5 pm is 4 am here, so I am not sure when I will get online to vote, hopefully during my lunch hour - anyone want to attend a meeting - to do my voting - Michelle

Jo, thank you, I found Kaz too. Thanks Jeanette. Just Daisy then. Ann glos

Ann Lorraine has asked me to pass on to you that she has done her suggestions for this month under her new name i hope you understand what she means lol coz i didnt Jo xx

Morning Ann! I've chosen another book. Jeanette x

Ann Just to let you know TOR is away for a few days Jax xx

that's good Dee, pleased you are OK. Thanks Jen. Now we just have TOR, Daisy, Lorraine and Kaz to give suggestions. As I said last month if suggestions are not in by 5pm today the vote will go ahead regardless. I hope you all understand that I don't have time to be continually chasing. Ann Glos

I’m not on my own computer at the moment so the best I can do is resubmit some of the books I have put forward before, and that I still want to read. Sorry to have had you worried. I will be back on my own computer tonight ;-)) Mother Country – Jeremy Harding When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother Maureen told him he’d been adopted. As he got older, he wondered about the identity of his biological parents, and eventually embarked on a quest to find them. Mother Country is a powerful true story, full of thrilling revelations, comic confusion and tender memories, about a man looking for the mother he’d never known and finding out how little he knew about the one he’d grown up with ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Earl of Petticoat Lane – Andrew Miller When Henry Freedman met Miriam Claret in 1929, he was a barrow boy and she was a milliner’s apprentice. In 1953, they were presented to the Queen. A rags to riches story ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Synopsis The central character of this story is the bored wife of a provincial doctor whose desires and illusions are shattered. The author vents his profound contempt for the bourgeois mentality, but betrays a certain sympathy for the human frailty of Emma Bovary. Dee x

Just putting this back on page one and good morning to you all xx Jill

Dee is fine, just busy at mo. Phew! xx Jen

Hiya Greaders I am just going to text Dee. xx Jen

Ooh Jill, I love Penny vincenzi's books, real blockbusters! Ann Glos

Jeanette, yes I realised that. It would be silly not to change it because that would mean two of you can't vote for it. so if you can come up with another one it would help. still no word from dee, how strange, do hope she is OK. Ann Glos

Ann Maz has chosen the same book as me - The Boleyn Inheritance. Shall I change my book? I'm going out this evening so it may be tomorrow before I can change it Jeanette x

Hi, Sheer Abandon by Penny Vincenzi Clio, Jocasta, and Martha, three college students on a backpacking holiday to Thailand, bond as only young women in an unfamiliar environment can: immediately, passionately, and with earnest intentions of adhering to their starry-eyed pledge of eternal friendship. Life, however, gets in the way. Some 15 years go by before the threesome--now a respected physician, tabloid journalist, and powerful attorney--are reunited. The catalyst is Kate, the adopted daughter of a staid, middle-class family who is determined to locate the woman who abandoned her after giving birth in a deserted corner of Heathrow Airport the same month Clio, Jocasta, and Martha returned from their Asian escapade. Vincenzi leaves no doubt that one of the three is Kate's mother, but cunningly leads both the reader and Kate on a merry chase as she weaves the trio's tumultuous lives into a captivating tapestry of failed marriages, unrequited love affairs, and political and professional subterfuge. The result is an absorbing tale rich in seductive intrigue and emotional impact. Timeline by Michael Crichton When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a 'quantum foam wormhole' and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking 'the butcher of Crecy' or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in 'Milady's Bath', a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat. This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates' most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artefacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages and Crichton marvellously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. 'She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his axe into the air.' Try not to turn the page! I will give the classic a miss as can not always get them over here in time xx Jill

thank you Jean. If you are in contact with her, the vote will be tomorrow, shall we vote without her or can you be the intermediary? Ann Glos