This article offers a quick look at some of the most popular novels. You can buy them for the coming winter season and enjoy reading them snuggled in your bed.
Telling Liddy by Anne Fine is a short but tightly written novel about the four Palmer sisters. It is seem mainly through the eyes of the social worker Bridie, who insists that her sister Liddy should be told that her current lover has been charged with child abuse, for the sake of her two children. Her other sisters, Heather and Stella, reluctantly agree, but back off when Liddy reacts with violent anger, leaving Bridie to carry the can. Bridie is forced to re-examine her intense relationships with her sisters and to realize that their actions have clouded the rest of her life.
Blind Date by Frances Fyfield is a thoroughly sinister murder mystery which will certainly put the readers off using the services of a dating agencies- had it ever been considered. Elisabeth Kennedy’s younger and more beautiful sister, Emma, has been brutally murdered and Elisabeth, a policewoman, has attempted, catastrophically, to ensnare the chief suspect. Retreating from disaster to her mother’s home, she is attacked with acid and horribly burnt. As the search for the real killer continues, Elisabeth is drawn in again. It is not until the last chapter that the mystery is revealed.
Windfall by Penny Vincenzi is a story of Cassia Berridge who gives up her lifelong ambition to become a doctor when she marries fellow student, Edward Fallon. It is 1935, and she finds herself trapped by the drudgery of looking after three young children on the low salary of a country GP. A legacy of half a million pounds from her godmother suddenly widens her horizons, but it also causes huge problems in her already troubled marriage. The struggle of the woman and that of her children takes most part of the book.
The Field Of The Star by Nicholas Luard traces a journey made by the author over four years from Le Puy in France, along the ancient pilgrim way, to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. He sets out with two companions- his sister and a woman friend- reflecting as he travels on his daughter’s approaching death, and knowing that “whatever happened between the three of us along the way, I had to finish the journey at Francesca”. The novel revolves around these three characters and occupies the attention of the reader as it is over-brimming with curious turns. The climax is set closely towards the finishing of the novel.
Some Must-To-Read Books
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