In the Summer of 1966, Robert decides to realise his dream of opening a cafe when he sees the dilapidated corner cafe in the Carmelite market Square in Vienna is closing. A war orphan, raised by nuns, Robert is a kind and hardworking man, and though his cafe is not in a fashionable part of …
In 1959, an orphan girl slips out of a revival tent and runs away from the sect who controls and crushes her life, unexpectedly finding her way to a house in the woods that's like something out of a fairytale. Sadly, she's soon taken back, but in 1965, and grown up, she flees her abusive …
Liza, along with her younger sister, grew up spending Summers in Provincetown, where their mother would go to work and hope to catch the eye of a wealthy man. Liza's father was almost totally absent, and her mother was most likely a narcissist, but definitely abusive. Because of this, Liza was drawn to a woman …
Continue reading The Babysitter: My Summers With A Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan
It's the early 60's and two girls meet and become best friends at an elite girls school. Eve comes from old money in Atlanta, while Daniella has been raised Methodist but has a Jewish father. When they befriend one of the maids at the school who is black and plan to join a sorority together, …
Continue reading We Are All Good People Here by Susan Rebecca White
As someone who loves to read the odd True Crime book and listens to My Favorite Murder, I have of course read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Aware that he stated that his book was all true, and was explosive in it's time leading to a film adaptation as well, I was aware that Capote …
It's the Summer of 1969, and Evie Boyd is 14. As her mother is caught up in her own drama and Evie's best friend ditches her to hang out with another girl from school, she is at a loss for how to spend her long, endless Summer. She is also desperate to be included and …
The Blackwell family have always lived in their beautiful home, a little apart and a little better than those around them. But since a family tragedy 6 years earlier, Merricat, her sister Constance and their aged and fragile Uncle Julian live there alone, avoiding contact with the hostile village around them. They live by a …
Continue reading We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
A classic spy novel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is le Carre's third novel and one that helped cement his name as one of the finest espionage novelists. This novel is the story of Alex Leamus. It's the 60's and he's been working in Germany, spying for Britain against the Communists on …
Continue reading The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John le Carre
If you haven't read Daphne Du Maurier before, you might want to start with her most well known work, Rebecca, which is a huge all time favourite of mine. Her books are often eery, with a mystery at the heart, and things unravel from there, with interesting consequences, which was perhaps why Hitchcock was a …
Continue reading The House On The Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
McMurphy is a free spirit and gambler who manages to get transferred to a mental asylum to escape the work unit in prison. But he finds that he's bitten off more than he can chew when he takes on Nurse Ratched. Written in the 60's and set in Oregon, the book says so much about …
Continue reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
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