Having loved The Secret Life of Winnie Cox, I’ve been dying to read this book. I needed to know what was going to happen next for George and Winnie. A part of me was so relieved that they had a future together after the struggles they faced in the first book, but then certain events within this stor...
I am slowly learning about the importance of choosing the right circumstances under which to read a book. This one I read while traveling with family, and I found its brand of lively melodrama perfect for semi-distracted, oft-interrupted reading. Judging from Of Marriageable Age, which I read years ...
If I’m completely honest, I was slightly apprehensive about this book. I absolutely love the front cover. One of my favourite covers this year. It evoked so much emotion in me, that I feared the book itself would be a disappointment. I’m really pleased to announce that I also loved the beautifully w...
bookshelves: autumn-2015, published-2015, net-galley, e-book, period-piece, racism, guyana, slaves, sugar-plantations, colonial-overlords, pecuniarilly-challenged Read from September 26 to October 06, 2015 Via invitation.Description: 1910, South American: Winnie Cox lives a privileged life of...
When Sharon Maas first made it known to her then-agent and then-editor that she was thinking about writing a book set in her native Guyana, she met with blank incomprehension and utter rejection: "Guyana? Whyever would anyone write about that little backwater country; a place nobody knows anything a...
bookshelves: published-2014, winter-20132014, contemporary, filthy-lucre, guyana, philately, newtome-author Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: L Read from December 03 to 08, 2014 Bookouture. Archive Date Not set.Description: Thirty years of family secrets. Three generations of women. One family heir...
"Zwei Seelen, ach, in meiner Brust" – "Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast," sighs Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust in one of the tragedy's most famous scenes, torn between love and destiny, between free will and divine providence. And two souls also are tearing apart the young heroine of...
An orphan boy adopted by an English doctor, living near Madras, in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu: Nataraj. A headstrong teenager, daughter of an Indian lawyer in Georgetown, British Guiana: Sarojini. Back in Madras, earlier, a cook's daughter, of Brahmin descent but a servant girl in a...
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