On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I shared my Five Favourite April 2023 Reads.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Random Titles From My Bookshelves.
Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Thursday – I published my review of historical novel, In the Shadows of Castles by G. K. Holloway.
Saturday – The first Saturday of the month means it’s time for the #6Degrees of Separation meme.
New arrivals
Before the Swallows Come Back by Fiona Curnow (eARC)
Tommy struggles with people, with communicating, preferring solitude, drifting off with nature. He is protected by his Tinker family who keep to the old ways. A life of quiet seclusion under canvas is all he knows.
Charlotte cares for her sickly father. She meets Tommy by the riverside and an unexpected friendship develops. Over the years it becomes something more, something crucial to both of them. But when tragedy strikes each family they are torn apart.
Charlotte is sent far away.
Tommy might have done something very bad.
North Woods by Daniel Mason (eARC, John Murray via NetGalley)
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characters alike.
An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave – only to discover that the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a sinister conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle: as each inhabitant confronts the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.
Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou (eARC, Verve)
Two sisters. One fire. A secret that won’t burn out.
The Grayson sisters are trouble. Everyone in their small town knows it. But no-one can know of the secret that binds them together.
Hattie is the light. Penny is the darkness. Together, they have balance.
But one night the balance is toppled. A match is struck. A fire is started. A cruel husband is killed. The potential for a new life flickers in the fire’s embers, but resentment, guilt, and jealousy suffocate like smoke.
Their lives have been engulfed in flames – will they ever be able to put them out?
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry
- Book Review: The Letter Reader by Jan Casey
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Sepulchre Street by Martin Edwards
- Book Review: Tiny Pieces of Enid by Tim Ewins
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