On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I published my review of wartime romance, China Blue by Madalyn Morgan.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was on the theme of water and I chose ten novels with bodies of water in their title.
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 – and sequel to China Blue – Chasing Ghosts by Madalyn Morgan.
Friday – I shared my review of The Postcard by Carly Schabowski as part of the blog tour.
Saturday – The first Saturday of a new month means it’s time for #6Degrees of Separation.
Sunday – I shared my 20 Books of Summer 2023 Reading Challenge Wrap-Up.
New arrivals
The Fascination by Essie Fox (Orenda)
Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn’t grown a single inch since she was five. Coerced into promoting their father’s quack elixir as they tour the country fairgrounds, at the age of fifteen the girls are sold to a mysterious Italian known as ‘Captain’.
Theo is an orphan, raised by his grandfather, Lord Seabrook, a man who has a dark interest in anatomical freaks and other curiosities … particularly the human kind. Resenting his grandson for his mother’s death in childbirth, when Seabrook remarries and a new heir is produced, Theo is forced to leave home without a penny to his name.
Unable to train to be a doctor as he’d hoped, Theo finds employment in Dr Summerwell’s Museum of Anatomy in London, and here he meets Captain and his theatrical ‘family’ of performers, freaks and outcasts.
But it is Theo’s fascination with Tilly and Keziah that will lead all of them into a web of dark deceits, exposing the darkest secrets and threatening everything they know…
The Good Liars by Anita Frank (HQ)
In the hot summer of 1914 a boy vanishes, never to be seen again.
Now, in 1920, the once esteemed Stilwell family of Darkacre Hall find their already troubled lives thrown into disarray when new evidence leads to the boy’s case being reopened – and this time they themselves are under police scrutiny.
As the dead return to haunt the living, old resentments resurface and loyalties are tested, while secrets risk being unearthed that could destroy them all.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- My Five Favourite August 2023 Reads
- Spotlight/Extract: Britain’s Best Export by Ruth Danes
- Book Review: The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
- Book Review: The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse
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