Mothering Sunday, 1924. Jane Fairchild, like all other household staff, has the day off but having no mother to visit, she has the day to herself. The eventful day will help shape her future in unforeseen ways.Mothering Sunday is a short novel but is packed full of beautiful, evocative writing. It t...
Giorno di festa. Coito e post coito. Coito. Ha pensato a tutto, Paul. Persino al contraccettivo (diaframma, tenete a mente). La giovane Jane, cameriera trovatella a servizio della famiglia Niven, da qualche anno ha una relazione col rampollo di casa Sheringham. Prima la pagava, poi promossala “am...
The concept did not work for me. I loved the beginning and the intriguing flash forwards. The period was well drawn and the charcters skillfully and slowly fleshed out.There was suspense and a feeling of impending doom but then Mothering Sunday just petered out like an old balloon.
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have unexpected, far-reaching effects....
Strip everything away and this is just the story of a day in which a maid has her last tryst with the youngest, soon to be married son of an upper class Berkshire family. Oh, but it is the everything that makes this little book. Within the story of that day and that tryst (so, adults only on this...
bookshelves: spring-2016, author-love, radio-4, long-weekend, published-2016, filthy-lucre, lit-richer, class-war, britain-n-ireland, books-about-books-and-book-shops, lifestyles-deathstyles, women Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from March 28 to April 16, 2016 BABThttp://www.bbc.co....
bookshelves: published-2003, booker-longlist, summer-2015, tbr-busting-2015, ipad, e-book, mystery-thriller, lit-richer, britain-england, london, wimbledon, pee-eyes, midlife-crisis, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy Read from July 26 to 28, 2015 To set the scene, let's have some Sugar Loaf SambaDescripti...
bookshelves: autumn-2014, published-2014, radio-4x, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, britain-england Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from September 17 to 26, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04j2333Description: Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the Civil War to the present ...
The power of stories, as most of us on any social book websites know, is powerful. It is with the use of or the absence of stories that we communicate information, facts, knowledge, and experience. Waterland is a book about the power of stories – the knowledge that they pass along, ...
I was struggling with this book and I fell asleep a couple of times while reading it (which is embarrassing, because normally this never happens to me..) Waterland really was not the kind of book I enjoy reading. I don't know what was going on in the author's head (or body) while writing it, but I...
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