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The List Of Suspicious Things: Book Club Questions

A Book Club is always a good way to bond with those people who share your love of books, but occasionally the group needs a little prompting on discussion topics to get the conversation flowing. Please find below a few ideas to get things started.

Book Review: The List Of Suspicious Things, by Jennie Godfrey

Yorkshire 1979. Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South. Because of the murders. Leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn’t an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started…

Book Review: A Lady’s Guide To Scandel by Sophie Irwin

A lifetime of duty. Widowed at just seven-and-twenty from her marriage of convenience, Eliza, now Countess of Somerset, is bequethed a fortune, hers to keep – provided she can steer clear of scandal. The promise of love. The last thing she expects is to be torn between two very different men – a face from…

Book Review: Atalanta by Jennifer Saint

When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta, is left to the mercy of a passing mother bear and raised alongside the cubs under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis. Swearing that she will prove her worth alongside the…

Book Review: The Botanist’s Daughter by Kayte Nunn

A buried secret… Present day: Anna is focused on growing her new gardening business and renovating her late grandmother’s house. But when she discovers a box hidden in a wall cavity, containing water colours of exotic plants, an old diary and a handful of seeds, she finds herself thrust into a centuries-old mystery. One that…

Book Review: The Impulse Purchase by Veronica Henry

Sometimes you have to let your heart rule your head . . . Cherry, Maggie and Rose are mother, daughter and granddaughter, each with their own hopes, dreams and even sorrows. They have always been close, so when, in a moment of impulse, Cherry buys a gorgeous but rundown pub in the village she grew…

The School For Good Mothers, Book Club Questions

A Book Club is always a good way to bond with those people who share your love of books, but occasionally the group needs a little prompting on discussion topics to get the conversation flowing. Please find below a few ideas to get things started.

Book Review: The School For Good Mothers

Frida had fed and changed her toddler Harriet. She had a work deadline – an article to finish, a job hanging by a thread, a file she’d left in the office. She would go get it. Harriet would be fine. But then the neighbours heard her crying. Soon, the state decides that Frida is not…

Book Review: The House Of Salt And Sorrows by Erin A Craig

The House Of Salt And Sorrows is a book I anticipated with a high level of thrill. It is based on the tale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, originally told by the Grimm Brothers, an old favourite of mine, which I was desperate to see written with a new slant. In that sense, I was…

Book Review: The Giver Of Stars by Jojo Moyes

I recently re-read The Giver Of Stars after I spotted a patient of mine reading it. We were gushing about the story together, leading me to abandon the TBR pile and re-reading it. I absolutely had to sate the need that she had arisen in me to revisit the librarians on their horsebacks, spreading the…

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