Friday Finds

My “finds” are from newbooks magazine, which arrived this morning.

The Lust of Mrs Robinson will be Kate Summerscale’s next book. This is a story of a Victorian scandal involving adultery, privacy and the divorce courts. I loved her recent book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.

 

An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay, set in Spain and Cornwall, is about the lives of two artists who “embark on a poignant and painful love affair”.

 

 

 

The Telling by Jo Baker to be published in May in paperback is the story of Rachel putting her mother’s affairs in order, packing up and selling her mother’s house, troubled by ghosts of the past.

 

 

 

And the book I think I’ll choose as my “free” book is The Water Horse by Julia Gregson. This is a fictionalised account of Jane Evans, a Welsh woman who in 1853 ran off with Welsh cattle drovers and volunteered as a nurse with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea.

5 thoughts on “Friday Finds

  1. The Lust of Mrs Robinson and the Julia Gregson both sound good! I’m going to jot these down. I’ve been hearing good things about Gregson and wishing she’d been published here.

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  2. All three books appeal to me. The first with the best litterary locations. I have been to Cornwall many times as a mental traveler and love it. Maybe someday I will physically be there… Spain is one of my favorite places. Also I have always enjoyed books about artists. The second is something that touches one’s heart, a beautiful and sad pain. The third depicts the type of woman I admire and wish I could be more like, but I don’t have the courage to live up to that life style. So I enjoy living and experiencing it in a safe way. Thank you for sharing your new finds Margaret.

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