Hi All, The choices for our next club read are: 1. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella - Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking its 2004 and shes a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life.But, to her disbelief, she learns its actually 2007 - shes twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, shes the boss of her department - and shes married! To a good-l ooking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life??! 2. Night of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchey - In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time: Fiona, an Irish nurse, Thomas, a Californian academic; Elsa, a German television presenter; and David a shy English boy. Along with Andreas, the old man who runs the taverna, they become close to each other after witnessing a tragedy when a pleasure steamer catches fire in the harbour. 3. The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer - ‘I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he’ll be dead. And he was never the same after that.’ 4. The Loop by Nicholas Evans - Helen Ross, a twenty-nine-year-old biologist, is sent to a sleepy Rocky Mountain ranching town to defend a pack of wolves from those who want to destroy them. For in Hope, Montana, a century ago, the wolf was slaughtered to extinction and though now protected by law as an endangered species, the old hatred runs deep. 5. A Town like Alice by Neville Shute - Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous spirit and ability to speak Malay, Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners and many end up owing their lives to her indomitable spirit. 6. Blessed Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch - Blessed are Corrie and Fee, for theirs is the kingdom of the worlds tastiest farmhouse cheese. Tucked away in a corner of Ireland, the lifelong friends turn out batch after batch of perfect Coolarney Blues and Golds, thanks to co-operative cows, non-meat-eating milkmaids and the wind blowing just so in the right direction. Add to this mixture Corries long-lost granddaughter Abbey, fresh from a remote but by no means backward island where her husband has been on a mission (just not the religious kind) 7. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - Her name is Dinah. In the Bible her fate is merely hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the verses of the Book of Genesis that recount the life of Jacob and his infamous dozen sons. The Red Tent is an extraordinary and engrossing tale of ancient womanhood and family honour. Told in Dinahs voice, it opens with the story of her mothers - the four wives of Jacob - each of whom embodies unique feminine traits. Please get your votes in by tomorrow evening. Thanks.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:10:14 +0000
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