Marianne and Jenny are best friends and they are also book lovers and owners of a little bookstore by the beach in the UK. They have worked hard to get it going and they both feel the need for a change. This brings tension in their relation and they both embark in new adventures and... Continue Reading →
I enjoyed Carol’s first book and it is nice to meet its characters again in this new escapist sequel. This one is set is Cannes, around the film festival, and through many twists and turns we discover what happened so many years ago between the Theodosis and the Du Lac families and how the consequences... Continue Reading →
After her novel "While Paris Slept", Ruth Druart comes back with another amazing story. We are in Paris in 1944-1945. A chance encounter brings together Élise, a French employee in a bank, and Sebastian, a German translator in the army occupying Paris. Although everything seems to separate them, they ally to challenge the system they... Continue Reading →
I have had freezer disasters and I know I am not alone. But that is because I did not have this really well designed and useful book at hand.It is very informative about freezing in general and this provides a really good basis for understanding the techniques that will turn a freezer disaster into a... Continue Reading →
Another great story by Kate Quinn. The story takes us to Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Three young women become involved in the code breaking activities that were going on there. They have very different backgrounds and personalities, but their lives become entangled for ever. Through their experience, we find ourselves drawn into... Continue Reading →
What an amazing story, what a lady, what a novel! Kate Quinn brings to life a heroin of the Second World War, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Lyudmila, from Kiev in (then) Russia, was a mother very young and wanted to get a good life for her and her son, studying history. She attended a shooting school and... Continue Reading →
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