On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I went Down The TBR Hole in an attempt to weed some books from my To-Read shelf on Goodreads.
Tuesday – I published my review of crime novel Requiem in La Rossa by Tom Benjamin as part of the blog tour. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Bookish Characters.
Wednesday – I shared my review of historical novel A Ration Book Victory by Jean Fullerton as part of the blog tour. WWW Wednesday is my 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 reviews of crime thriller Little Drummer by Kjell Ola Dahl, and historical mystery A Taste for Killing by Sarah Hawkswood as part of the blog tours.
Friday – I shared my review of Elektra by Jennifer Saint.
Saturday – A double serving today with a guest post by author Louise Fein to celebrate the publication in paperback of her historical novel The Hidden Child, and review of thriller Outcast by Chris Ryan as part of the blog tour.
New arrivals
Think of Me by Frances Liardet (ARC, 4th Estate)
Egypt, 1942. Amid the falling bombs, Hurricane pilot James Acton meets Yvette Haddad, a captivating young Alexandrian with a penchant for dangerous driving whose love will become his reason to survive.
England, 1974. James has come to the village of Upton to begin again. Trying to escape his grief for Yvette, who died ten years earlier, he hopes to find new purpose as the vicar of this small Hampshire parish.
One day, alone in his church, he comes across an abandoned silk scarf. The scarf feels familiar, it feels like Yvette’s, and yet how can it be, all this time later? James pulls on the thread of this mystery which leads him to Yvette’s private diary, where he makes a devastating discovery.
James’s world unravels, but as the mystery unfolds, he comes across something so precious and so long list, he thought he’d never find it again: hope.
Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz, trans. by Rachel Ward (eARC, Orenda)
Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for anorexia. She’s furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace.
Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large farm that she runs single-handedly. She has little contact with the outside world, and no need for other people.
From their first meeting, Sally realises that Liss isn’t like other adults; she expects nothing of Sally and simply accepts who she is, offering her a bed for the night with no questions asked. That night becomes weeks and then months, as an unlikely friendship develops and these two damaged women slowly open up – connecting to each other, reconnecting with themselves, and facing the darkness in their pasts through their shared work on the land.
Nothing Else by Louise Beech (eARC, Orenda)
Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child, to drown out the violence in their home. A song she played with her little sister, Harriet.
But Harriet is gone … she disappeared when their parents died, and Heather never saw her again.
When Heather is offered an opportunity to play piano on a cruise ship, she leaps at the chance. She’ll read her recently released childhood care records by day – searching for clues to her sister’s disappearance – and play piano by night … coming to terms with the truth about a past she’s done everything to forget.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: Vincent van Gogh: The Healing Power of Nature
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Witch’s Tree by Elena Collins
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
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