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On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday – I published my review of The Readers’ Room by Antoine Laurain.

Tuesday –  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Bookish Wishes to celebrate the birthday of Top Ten Tuesday host, Jana.

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… and to have a good nose around what others are reading. 

Thursday – I shared my publication day review of Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce and my review of One Last Time by Helga Flatland as part of the blog tour.

Friday – I shared an update on my progress with the What’s In A Name? 2021 Reading Challenge.

Saturday – I published my review of The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.

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

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New arrivals

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (eARC, courtesy of Viking via NetGalley) 

Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband – and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership.

Oh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think we know about those closest to us; and the way people live and love, against all odds. At the heart of this story is the unforgettable, indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who once again offers a profound, lasting reflection on the mystery of existence. ‘This is the way of life,’ Lucy says. ‘The many things we do not know until it is too late.’

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories 
• Top Ten Tuesday
• WWW Wednesday
• Blog Tour/Book Review: The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi
• Blog Tour/Extract: The Lady in the Veil by Allie Cresswell
• Blog Tour/ Book Review: This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
• #6Degrees of Separation  

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday – I published my review of The Fort by Adrian Goldsworthy as part of the blog tour.

Tuesday –  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books On My Summer 2021 TBR. I also joined in with two more blog tours with my review of Scandalous Alchemy by Katy Moran and an extract from Castle Shade by Laurie R. King.

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… and to have a good nose around what others are reading. I also republished my review of The High-Rise Diver by Julia von Lucadou as part of the blog tour.

Thursday – I shared my publication day review of Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft by Samantha Silva.

Friday – I published my review of Everything Happens for a Reason by Katie Allen as part of the blog tour.

Saturday – I shared an update on my progress with the 20 Books of Summer Reading Challenge 2021. 

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

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New arrivals

The Hidden Child by Louise Fein (limited edition proof, courtesy of Head of Zeus) 

London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and an adoring wife to a celebrated war hero. Her husband, Edward, is a pioneer in the Eugenics movement. The Hamiltons are on the social rise, and it looks as though their future is bright.

When Mabel, their young daughter, begins to develop debilitating seizures, they have to face the uncomfortable truth – Mabel has epilepsy: one of the ‘undesirable’ conditions that Edward campaigns against.

Forced to hide the truth so as not to jeopardise Edward’s life’s work, the couple must confront the truth of their past – and the secrets that have been buried.

Will Eleanor and Edward be able to fight for their family? Or will the truth destroy them?

Songbirds by Christy Lefteri (review copy courtesy of Zaffre and Readers First)

Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. By day she cares for Petra’s daughter; at night she mothers her own little girl by the light of a phone.

Nisha’s lover, Yiannis, is a poacher, hunting the tiny songbirds on their way to Africa each winter. His dreams of a new life, and of marrying Nisha, are shattered when she vanishes.

No one cares about the disappearance of a domestic worker, except Petra and Yiannis. As they set out to search for her, they realise how little they know about Nisha. What they uncover will change them all.

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: The Readers’ Room by Antoine Laurain
• Top Ten Tuesday
• WWW Wednesday
• Blog Tour/Book Review: One Last Time by Helga Flatland
• Book Review: Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce