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Authors of the Month
Gail Holmes
Gail Holmes grew up in Scotland. In 2013 Gail moved to Australia. Her creative writing journey began when she was a working mum with very young children in Shanghai, China. Unable to get back to sleep one night, Gail started writing short stories about living in Shanghai. As this writing habit continued to grow, she attended short courses at the City College of Literature in London and then later studied at the Melbourne University’s Master of Creative Writing.
In The Margins is her first novel.
Gail will be in conversation at the BMI on Wednesday 4 June.
Book of the Month
There Are Rivers in the Sky.
Elif Shafak.
This is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris – their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.
Recommended Reads
The Secrets of Summer House
Rachel Burton.
A Hidden letter will change everything.
1976 Cambridge undergraduate Alice Kenzie bumps into PHD student Tistan Somers and so begins a whirlwind romance and a promise of their future together. But when Tristan is killed in a car accident, Alice takes their baby to Tristan’s family home in Suffock, before she disappears.
2018 Olivia Somers has always been told that her mother died in the same accident as her father. But when she finds a bundle of old letters in Summer House, everything she ever believed about her mother is called into question. Can she find her – and even more importantly, forgive her.
See How They Fall
Rachel Paris.
Following the death of Sir Campbell Turner, the family gathers at an exclusive property north of Sydney to discuss his estate. Tensions rise when an illegitmate heir arrives, and the weekend ends in tragedy: one family member is dead, and another
is fighting for their life…
The Nurses of Eastby End
Anna Jacobs.
When Rachel qualifies as a district nurse, she does so because she wants to help others and make a difference. But she is also running from a secret that must stay hidden forever. But her past is catching up with her.
She hears about an opportunity in a village near Rochdale she seizes the opportunity, even though it takes her closer to the home she fled from. She knows nothing about Eastby End and she is shocked to find it little more than a slum.
A meeting with the mayor, Walter Crossle,gives her focus and direction and introduces her to local landowner, Joss Townley, who is equally appalled to see his new neighbours’ misery anger.
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