I began on a spring morning in the Anglo-American Hospital in Zamalek, which was a residential suburb on Gezira, the island in Cairo’s Nile; 17 March 1933. Elsewhere, things were going on that would lead to turmoil in North Africa in a few years’ time; my parents’ lives would be affected, and mine, ...
4.5 stars. I really enjoyed this fantasy novel. It has great characters and writing. I loved the relationship between the main characters and the challenges they faced in being together. Thankful that external forces fighting against them wasn't a third party in the way of a love triangle. The c...
The current of this book takes on that of the butterfly effect, being that one seemingly small event can alter the course of proceeding events, in unforeseen and often sizable ways. It's an easy read, but might elicit food for thought on your own deeds and actions, whether they be those of commissio...
It's odd how the children in books are quite often techno-geeks, or science geeks, or sports mad, or even, in a few cases, artistic. They're hardly ever history geeks and books are hardly ever written for history geek kids. This book might well be the exception. Maria has a natural talent for histor...
I loved it! Read it. Initially, I disliked Claudia while admiring her -- she is intelligent and outspoken, but she is more concerned with people in theory than in practice. She embarks upon a career as an historian because she is insatiably curious about the multitude of untold stories throughout hi...
This book grew on me--at first appearing distant in how it treated its subject, Daisy Goodwill Flett, but ultimately moving and singular. The chapters in the table of contents tip you off you'll be reading about a life entire: Birth - 1905; Childhood - 1916; Marriage - 1927; Love - 1937; Motherhood ...
Interesting story about a boy being haunted by a poltergeist of Thomas Kempe who used to live in the house he's now living with. Could have had more detail about the man who was now a ghost and the end fell a bit flat for me but it was interesting
I went ahead and marked this five stars for "amazing," because it's rare that a contemporary novel is quotable. The main character is an educated British woman in her seventies, recovering from a mugging. First sentence: "The pavement rises up and hits her." Terrific, right? Here's a bit from when s...
I always enjoy Penelope Lively's books. Here, an older woman is mugged and injured enough to have to spend weeks recuperating in the home of her married daughter. This has a cascade of effects on other people's lives, from her daughter's employer (an aging and increasingly forgetful historian) to th...
This is the first book I'd read by this author and I enjoyed it. The book focusses on one family and their life growing up in a large Edwardian house - Allersmead. The story flits between past and present and takes turns at focussing on the lives of each character, their childhood and where they are...
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