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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Book Titles That Include the Word [‘ ‘] with us free to choose the word. I’ve gone for the word ‘woman’. Links from each title will take you to my review.
- Woman in Blue by Douglas Bruton – Every day a man visits the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to gaze at a painting called Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
- The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok – Jasmine thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years later she learns her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China’s one child policy
- The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner – In Regency England, Neva is born with an extraordinary gift – the ability to predict the weather
- That Bonesetter Woman by Frances Quinn – Endurance Proudfoot only wants one thing in life – to follow her father and grandfather into the family business of bonesetting
- The Woman with the Map by Jan Casey – As the Blitz takes hold of London, Joyce’s role is to mark the trail of turmoil on a map
- Born of No Woman by Franck Bouysse, translated by Lara Vergnaud – Rose is sold as a teenage girl to a rich man known as ‘the Master’ and hidden away in a old manor house deep in the woods in 19th century France
- A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford – Having moved to Kelly Castle, her husband’s dilapidated family estate, Caroline sets out to solve a century-old mystery
- The Woman With Wings by James MacManus – Is Alison’s belief she can fly merely a flight of fancy or evidence that things we think are impossible may not actually be so?
- The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea – Betrothed unexpectedly to Jón Eiríksson, Rósa is sent to join her new husband in the remote village of Stykkishólmur in 17th century Iceland
- Woman Enters Left by Jessica Brockmole – 1950s film star Louise Wilde receives an unexpected phone call telling her she has inherited the estate of Florence “Florrie” Daniels, a Hollywood screenwriter she barely recalls meeting
What word did you choose?
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