we need to talk about books

Much Wenlock
October 10th 2019

Here are the books we talked about:

Anna:     
Love and Summer – William Trevor
Big Sky – Kate Atkinson
How The Dead Speak – Val McDermid
(The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood)

Philip:    
(Do No Harm, and)
 Admissions – Henry Marsh        
 The Cut Out Girl – Bart van Es
 (and Our Place – Mark Cocker)

Jo:        
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock – Imogen Hermes Gowar

Jenny:   
Still Life, and A Better Man – Louise Penny

Gillie:    
(Slow Horses and) Spook Street – Mick Herron

Sue:       
Vinegar Girl – Anne Tyler
The Guest Cat – Takashi Hiraide

Hilary:  
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
The Photograph (read at least five timesaver the years!) – Penelope Lively

Tim:      
Mara and Dann – Doris Lessing
Sweet Thursday – John Steinbeck

Marion: 
Wilding (see previous lists) – Isabella Tree
The Adventures of Maud West – Susannah Stapleton
Monster – Jonathan Kellerman

(The ones in brackets are titles that people mentioned in passing.)

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