![]() Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. When Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the consequences of Michael's split-second decision made all those decades ago."Īs Close to Us as Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner - "In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Meanwhile Luisa falters in the flow of her life as her children begin to fly the nest and she is left suspended, without direction. More than fifty years later, Kit, a charming stranger, arrives in a coastal Norfolk village to take up his inheritance - a decommissioned lighthouse, half hidden in the shadows of the past. Impulsively he boards a train heading to the western tip of Cornwall. Bracey to a widowed young proprietor of the local waxworks, Lily Wilson to the would-be artist Bertram-while the book as a whole offers a beautifully observed and written examination of the fictions around which we construct our lives and manage our losses."įrom a Distance by Rafaella Barker - "Bruised and brutalised by war, Michael returns to England on a troop ship, unable to face the life that awaits him at home. As the novel proceeds, Taylor’s view widens to take in a range of characters from bawdy, nosey Mrs. Prudence, Robert and Beth’s daughter, disapproves of the intimacy that has grown between her parents and Tory and the gossip it has awakened in their little community. Tory, recently divorced, depends more and more on the company of her neighbors Robert, a doctor, and Beth, a busy author of melodramatic novels. So, the final five.Ī View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor - "Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor’s great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that’s been left behind by modernity. ![]() It's funny what first appeals and then gets cut, and now this pile has little in common with the mental list I jotted down in my notebook (and sometimes it is a matter, too, of just not being able to find the book on my shelves). I had quite the original pile and had to winnow it down a bit or I would never have been able to choose. So this month's prompt, and ready for the summer holiday is a day at the beach! I do love this theme and return to it quite often. Or, the next best thing in my case-a book set in a seaside setting. Somewhere with coolish breezes and a bonfire at night. Not being anywhere near a beach of any sort, however, it is hard to imagine really what would be most appealing. I could use a day at the beach, but it would have to be a cool weather sort of beach, maybe more rocky than sandy. Alternative History/Dystopian Fiction (7).
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