Book Club – Three gripping reads
Looking for something to read but not sure what. Here are three recommendations….
The Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago, an upstanding citizen, father and husband walked through the streets of his neighbourhood and killed eleven people, one of whom was four-year-old Cassie Colman’s father. As this quarter-century anniversary approaches, Cassie finds something hidden in her mum’s possessions which suggests the murders were not what everyone believes. Suspecting she’s been lied to her entire life, she keeps digging, wanting to find out the truth. But someone in the neighbourhood would prefer to keep it buried! The Anniversary is Laura Marshall’s third gripping psychological thriller (and if you’ve yet to read Friend Request, add that to you book shopping list, too). Sphere.
The Gilded Cage
People would kill to have Faye’s life. A lovely apartment, a gorgeous husband, an adorable daughter. Which is why it’s a little odd that she now finds herself in a police station. Does, perhaps, the woman who has everything, have something to hide? The truth, it appears, is that her life is not what it seems. And she’s been caught out. But she’s not going to go down without a fight. Camilla Lackberg’s The Gilded Cage is a thrill a minute read. Harper Collins.
Children of Sugarcane
Shanti is a bright teenager, stifled by life in rural India and facing an arranged marriage. Thinking South Africa may be an opportunity to start afresh, she heads for The Colony of Natal. After a harrowing sea voyage, she arrives, to a life not of one she dreamed, but of profound hardship and arduous labour. Set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the sugar cane plantations of Natal, and spanning four decades, Children of Sugarcane is South African media personality Joanne Joseph’s first work of fiction. Jonathan Ball.
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