I loved this book. Loved loved loved it. I think it's because it's so honest and heartbreaking. Wild is the memoir of a 26 year old woman whose life falls apart, and to find herself, she hikes the PCT trail from California to Oregon alone. Four years before the hike, Cheryl lost her mother to …
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Fortune’s Daughter by Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman mixes the magical with the everyday, the mystical with the mundane. In this story, two women find their lives mixed up when one of them finds out she's pregnant. Rae ran away with her high school boyfriend seven years ago, but finds herself run out on when she turns out to be pregnant. …
The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
After losing three children to stillbirth, a lighthouse keeper's wife convinces her husband to keep a child that washes up in a boat on their island. But have they done the right thing? Is someone missing their child? What appears to be the right choice is often not simple. Tom's wife, Isabel, has been torn …
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
A gentle mix of modern life and ancient fairy tale, this book is about memory and childhood, magic and the mundane. Opening on an adult returning to his childhood home after the death of his parents, it soon slips into the half forgotten story of the man as a young boy. Starting with the suicide …
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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
I think what strikes you first about de Bernieres is how human is writing is. It's mundane, describes the ordinary, or perhaps ordinary people caught up in history, in change. While war wages around the sleeping, pastoral island of Cephallonia, for example, goats must still be milked, fathers scolded and meals shared, distant politics debated, …
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