Vladimir by Julia May Jonas @julia_May_Jonas @hopeisreading @picadorbooks #Vladimir #JuliaMayJonas #TheClqrt #BookReview #Bookblogger

Picador Books 26th May 2022 Book Description "When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me." And so we meet our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose husband, a charismatic teacher at the same small liberal arts college, is under investigation for his inappropriate…

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides @AlexMichaelides @orionbooks #TheMaidens #AlexMichaelides #TheClqrt #BookReview #RecommendedReads #BookBlog

Weidenfeld &Nicolson June 2021 Book Description ST CHRISTOPHER'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, IS A CLOSED WORLD TO MOST. For Mariana Andros - a group therapist struggling through her private grief - it's where she met her late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it's the tragic scene of her best friend's murder. As memory and mystery entangle Mariana,…

The Performance by Claire Thomas @elizabethAllen @wnbooks #ThePerformance #ClaireThomas #TheClqrt #BookReview #BookBlog

Weidenfeld & Nicholson April 2021 Book Description As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Beckett play. Margot is a successful professor, preoccupied by her fraught relationship with her ailing husband. Ivy is a philanthropist with a troubled past, distracted by the snoring man beside her. Summer is a young…

Review – Abide with Me

Elizabeth Strout 2006 Simon & Schuster Books A sad story of grief about a family responding to and recovering from the death of Lauren Caskey, wife to Tyler and mother of Katherine and Jeannie.  Following the death Tyler tries to carry on as normal in his role as Minister in the small town of West Annett.  Jeannie, a baby…