Three sisters - Hélène, Elise and Florence - live in a beautiful little house away from Sainte Cécile, a village in Dordogne, not too far from Sarlat. They moved when their father passed away and have remained there because of the Second World War. We are now in 1944 and the three sisters are longing... Continue Reading →
The Rose Garden (Tracy Rees)
I always look forward to Tracy Rees’s books and this one was another very good read. The story takes place in the late 1890s in London and brings together the lives of three very different women. Mabs is poor and works as a labourer on the canal, dressed as a boy, to help her family... Continue Reading →
The Irish Nanny (Sandy Taylor)
Rose lives in the small Irish town of Ballykillen with her mother and sisters. They are very modest and Rose is delighted when she and her friend Polly get a job in a hotel in Cork. There, she meets a gentleman, David, who later asks her to work for his family as companion for his... Continue Reading →
Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook (Celia Rees)
This book is set in the aftermath of the Second World War. Edith, an English schoolteacher, is sent to Germany as part of the post-war effort to rebuilt in various domains, hers being education. But Edith is also given other, more underground, tasks. She has to gather information destined to help her friends and the... Continue Reading →
