A Quiet Belief in Angels - RJ Ellory

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Be amazed at the speed at which this post has been posted.

This last book was excellent and one we would all recommend you read. There were quite a lot of unanswered questions but I thought this made the book all the more interesting. We did discuss it more than any other book we have read.

Pippa
Would have liked the ending to give more closure.

Kath
If you think you wont enjoy a crime novel, then think again!



Synopsis from Amazon
Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer. Despite banding together with his friends as ' The Guardians', he was powerless to prevent more murders - and no one was ever caught. Only after a full ten years did the nightmare end when the one of his neighbours is found hanging from a rope, with articles from the dead girls around him. Thankfully, the killings finally ceased. But the past won't stay buried - for it seems that the real murderer still lives and is killing again. And the secret of his identity lies in Joseph's own history...

We ate at The Ferry Inn at Stone on the Marsh.

The food was ok. Nice to see the locals drinking in it. Not sure the pudding was homemade as they said as Pippa found a piece of plastic in it which looked very much like packaging - home heated possibly.



Working out the bill...





Love to you all

Kate

Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirozsky

Hello

This was my choice and a bit disappointing. It had great reviews but I did not research it enough and didn't realise it was unfinished which would have made it a great book but horribly long.

I would recommend it but be aware that you will need to make up your own mind about some of the characters as it is not complete. It is worth reading the appendix at the back as this gives quite an insight



Synopsis from Amazon
In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She did not live to see her ambition fulfilled, or to know that sixty-five years later, "Suite Francaise" would be published for the first time, and hailed as a masterpiece. Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940 and ends with Germany turning its attention to Russia, "Suite Francaise" falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion and make their way through the chaos of France; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation who find themselves thrown together in ways they never expected. Nemirovsky's brilliance as a writer lay in her portrayal of people, and this is a novel that teems with wonderful characters, each more vivid than the next. Haughty aristocrats, bourgeois bankers and snobbish aesthetes rub shoulders with uncouth workers and bolshy farmers. Women variously resist or succumb to the charms of German soldiers. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places. Irene Nemirovsky conceived of "Suite Francaise" as a four- or five-part novel. It was to be a symphony - her War and Peace. Although only two sections were finished before her tragic death, they form a book that is beautifully complete in itself, and awe-inspiring in its understanding of humanity.

We ate at The White Dog Inn at Ewhurst Green. The main meal was good and well priced but the puddings a bit disappointing in their plainess.



Kate

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Hello my book lovers

This was the choice by Kath and a great book. I have read nothing like it before and loved it.



Synopsis from Amazon
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby...Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of Ruby's own life.

We had our meeting at Kath's house but got a little distracted from the book by newly arrived Chloe



but we were all there



and we did discuss the book.



I would like to read another by this author

Kate