Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you’ll read next?
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Currently reading
Estella’s Revenge by Barbara Havelocke (Hera)
You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story.
Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to hate men and to keep her heart cold as the grave. She knows she doesn’t feel things quite like other people do but is this just the result of her strange upbringing?
As she watches the brutal treatment of women around her, hatred hardens into a core of vengeance and when she finds herself married to the abusive Drummle, she is forced to make a deadly choice: Should she embrace the darkness within her and exact her revenge?
A Plague of Serpents (Daniel Pursglove #4) by K. J. Maitland (Headline via NetGalley)
London, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King’s enemies prepare to strike again.
Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents – a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King – or risk his own execution. But other conspirators are circling, men who would blackmail Daniel for their own dark ends.
In the Serpents’ den, nothing is quite as it seems. And when Daniel spies a familiar face among their number, the game takes a dangerous turn.
As plague returns to London, tensions reach breaking point. Can Daniel escape the web of treason in which he finds himself ensnared – or has his luck finally run out?
Recently finished
How To Make A Bomb: A Novel by Rupert Thomson (Apollo)
Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus)
How do you find the courage to make your own life?
Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly and absolutely for eighteen-year-old Simon Hurst, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simon’s plans are blown off course, he leaves for Paris and Marianne is forced to bury her dreams of a future together.
It is Marianne who tells this piercing story of first love, characterising herself as ignorant and unworthy, whilst her smart, ironic narration tellingly reveals so much more. Finding her way in 1960s Chelsea, and supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella, she continues to seek the life she never stops craving. And in Paris, beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst continues to nurse the secret which will alter everything. (Review to follow)
What Cathy Will Read Next
A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray (Hutchinson Heinemann)
Property might be theft. But the housing market is murder.
My name is Al.
I live in wealthy people’s second homes while their real owners are away.
I don’t rob them, I don’t damage anything. I’m more an unofficial house-sitter than an actual criminal.
Life is good. Or it was – until last night, when my friends and I broke into the wrong place, on the wrong day, and someone wound up dead.
And now … now we’re in a great deal of trouble.
What Cathy Read Next... 