My Week in Books – 5th July 2020 – What Cathy Read Next…

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday – I shared my review of The Offing by Benjamin Myers.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Most Anticipated Releases in the Second Half of 2020.

Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is the opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next…and have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading.

Thursday – I published my review of The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey, winner of this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Friday – I shared my Five Favourite June Reads.

Saturday – The first Saturday of a new month means it’s time for 6 Degrees of Separation.

As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media this week.

New arrivals

The Honey and the Sting by E. C. Fremantle (eARC, courtesy of Michael Joseph via NetGalley)

Three sisters. Three secrets. Three ways to fall . . .

England, 1628. Forcibly seduced by the powerful George Villiers, doctor’s daughter Hester is cast aside to raise her son alone and in secret. She hopes never to see Villiers again.

Melis’s visions cause disquiet and talk. She sees what other’s can’t – and what has yet to be. She’d be denounced as a witch if Hester wasn’t so carefully protective.

Young Hope’s beauty marks her out, drawing unwelcome attention to the family. Yet she cannot always resist others’ advances. And her sisters cannot always be on their guard.

When Villiers decides to claim his son against Hester’s wishes, the sisters find themselves almost friendless and at his mercy. But the women hold a grave secret. The question is, will what they know be their undoing or their salvation?

Because in the right hands, a secret is the deadliest weapon of all…