Barbara Trapido is definitely growing on me. Unfortunately, I may have trouble finding any more of her books in my area. That however is why there are used book sites and Interlibrary loan.As soon as I finished Trapido's Temples of Delight, I checked out this novel. I thought the Temples of De...
This was exctly the right book for me! It's about Dinah, a girl growing up in South Africa in the 50s. A perfect mixture of Dinah's personal history and the history of South Africa of the time (with apartheid and everything). As for the titel Frankie & Stankie: It really is pretty random. It refe...
Thank you to NetGalley and Bloomsbury USA for this advanced copy. In exchange for a pre-publish copy I am giving an honest review. Originally published in 1982 and now being re-released in November 2014 is Trapido's book that has been named by several authors as the book that influenced their wri...
As I have mentioned before, I read the Book Brahmin questions and answers at shelf-awareness.com. Recently, Maria Semple was the subject because she has a new book coming out. Her book sounds good and I purchased it for the library. The one answer that caught my attention was what she said to ...
Christina and Pam are sisters less than a year apart in age. Pam is tall and black-haired, while Christina is small and fair. Brought up in New York, they are sent to an English boarding school where they meet two boys, Peter and Jago. As the years pass, the four meet and part.
Not what I had expected at all, it was far more serious and slightly dark than the "fabulously witty" recommendation had suggested. Ali's decision, the one that affects her marriage with Noah (dont want to say too much in case I give a spoiler) but basically it was a decision that greatly decreas...
‘I’m Hattie. Please come in. I’ll take you to the garden cottage.’ Jack hasn’t quite got used to being called Giacomo Moroni. It’s a recent nom de plume; a name of convenience. For so long now, he’s been Jacques: Jacques Moreau. Admittedly Eduardo, when in fatherly mood, had occasionally called h...