I have never been as deeply impacted by a novel as I was by this absolute masterpiece!
I was so captivated by this coming-of-age story about young Kaya that I have kept coming back to it. I was captivated not only by her development but also by the challenges she faced as the orphaned ‘marsh girl.’
I not only read it (twice) but listened to it as an audiobook and watched Rees Witherspoon’s film version (twice). I have never done this for any book before. It’s one of the very few novels that has moved me to tears. It’s a model of how to write stories that are both literary in form and gripping in content.
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For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be…
I absolutely love this tale of a lost and endangered RAF pilot on his way home because it’s set on Christmas Eve and runs into Christmas Day. I love its two timelines, 1957 (the Christmas Eve flight) and 1945 (WW2, when the ‘shepherd’ last flew). I also love it because Forsyth wrote it as a Christmas present for his wife.
I love the idea of brave pilots in WW2 guiding lost airmen home and that these selfless guides were called ‘shepherds.’ I also love the way Forsyth suggests different layers of meaning, including references to the Good Shepherd, which Christmas, of course, celebrates.
I only discovered it last year. It’s a neglected treasure. It's a Christmas classic.
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The chilling thriller from the international bestselling phenomenon.
'A cunningle wrought tale' Financial Times 'A stirring and beautiful story' The Times _____________
Christmas Eve, 1957.
For one Royal Air Force pilot, one last hurdle remains between himself and a cozy Christmas morning in England. A sixty-six-minute flight in his Vampire fighter plane from Germany to Lakenheath.
A routine flight plan and a full tank of fuel. What could go wrong?
But as the fog begins to close in, the compass goes haywire and the radio dies, leaving him in silence, lost…
I love Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about the Tudor Age, this book being the third. I love the way she sheds light on the Tudor Age by focusing on one person, Thomas Cromwell. This third novel draws his story to a tragic conclusion in prose that I found exquisite.
In my opinion, Hilary Mantel’s trilogy is the finest fiction of our times. As a lover of both fine writing and Tudor history, I found this third book, like the previous two, impossible to put down. It not only tells a compelling story; it also sets the gold standard for anyone who wants to produce fine writing in the future.
Her recent death is a terrible loss to the literary world.
The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
'Mantel has taken us to the dark heart of history...and what a show' The Times
'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?'
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The…
House of Dreams is a magical tale about a 500-year-old Tudor house in England, its ghosts, its traumas, its treasures, and its secrets. This house may only have two storeys, but it tells many tales.
After reading this joyful tale, you will never see houses in the same way again.
