I got this book – Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson – in a beautiful bookshop in Bath on the way to the train station. My friend had suggested a book on the Mitford sisters and so I got this one. Having compared notes, I don’t think this is the one she meant, but it was still interesting.
Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James is the closest I could get to an Austen novel for my trip to Bath. I have read all her books decades ago. I wasn’t certain about a sequel, but I thought I’d give it ago, in the interests of this experiment. I was going to see a friend for her own 40th celebrations.
I picked up Sexing the Cherry in a lovely second hand shop in Belfast, near the university, just before we went to look around the botanical gardens. I am always on the look out for Jeanette Winterson as I feel I need to catch up in my reading of her work.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is Book number fifteen. It was recommended to me by a friend when I first asked for suggestions last year.
They Found Him Dead, by Georgette Heyer, is surely the perfect title for a holiday read. This mystery features a death at a birthday party and, of course, a dysfunctional extended family to point suspicion at. Continue reading Book 9: They Found Him Dead
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