My Week in Books – 3rd January 2021 – What Cathy Read Next…

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday – I published my review of Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was the always tough Favourite Books 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…as well as have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading.

Thursday – I took a look at how I got on with My 2020 Reading Challenges.

Friday – I shared the books I might read for the What’s In A Name 2021 reading challenge.

Saturday – The first Saturday of the month and the year means it’s time for #6Degrees of Separation. This month’s starting book was Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell.

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

New arrivals

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (audiobook)

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens – until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state’s best witness, but she can’t remember what happened in front of her own eyes – or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families.

The Diplomat’s Wife by Michael Ridpath (advance review copy, courtesy of Corvus and Reader’s First)

1936: Devastated by the death of her beloved brother Hugh, Emma seeks to keep his memory alive by wholeheartedly embracing his dreams of a communist revolution. But when she marries an ambitious diplomat, she must leave her ideals behind and live within the confines of embassy life in Paris and Nazi Berlin. Then one of Hugh’s old comrades reappears, asking her to report on her philandering husband, and her loyalties are torn.

1979: Emma’s grandson, Phil, dreams of a gap-year tour of Cold War Europe, but is nowhere near being able to fund it. So when his beloved grandmother determines to make one last trip to the places she lived as a young diplomatic wife, and to try to solve a mystery that has haunted her since the war, he jumps at the chance to accompany her. But their journey takes them to darker, more dangerous places than either of them could ever have imagined…