After I read Amor Towles’A Gentleman in Moscow,I became hooked on this author’s work, and The Lincoln Highwaydid not disappoint.
I loved the quirky, memorable characters and creative story with peculiar twists and turns, not to mention Towles’ beautiful writing. I felt as though I was right there beside them on that wild and wacky road trip across the USA.
I loved this book from page one and had to force myself to put it down at night if I wanted to get any sleep.
For me, it was a kaleidoscope of sensations: a fascinating character with a tortured background, a present-day situation where she was flung into a challenging situation that brought up her past, and the constant question of ‘what’s going to happen now?”
All the elements that make a great story and a book I didn’t want to end.
'Beautifully told and gripping from first page to last' Sunday Express 'An incredible feat of storytelling... and an old-fashioned page-turner' Donal Ryan 'Gripping and well-honed...consummately constructed, humming with tension' Guardian 'You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel' John Irving ________________________________
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel.
Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most…
Compelling and fascinating. This book educated me about the incredible workings and capabilities of our brain in such a way that was easy to understand and amazing to learn.
As a result of reading it, I started doing mind exercises and spent time thinking about all the ways I can use my brain since the author’s primary message is: If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it.
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed-people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning disorders cured, IQs raised, aging brains rejuvenated, stroke patients learning to speak, children with cerebral palsy learning to move with more grace, depression and anxiety…
An entrancing novel about a quest, a secret, and a discovery. When Charlotte Fontaine felt her life lacked excitement, she impulsively booked a flight to Cambodia to visit her best friend.
She never imagined the journey would lead to a chance encounter with an old man whose tragic secret would take her on a mystery quest.
In a land of golden temples, orange-clad monks, and gentle people, Charlotte discovers nothing is as she'd expected. And who was the man on the plane? Was he just a kindly old gent, or was there something deeper sewn into the exquisite fabric of his life?
