Rosemary’s Book of the Week Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies. Vicky Baudin steps onto the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. BUT …
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman. Rosemary’s Book of the Week Lady Augusta Colebrook, ‘Gus’ is determinedly unmarried bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed, need a distraction. One soon presents itself to …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years …
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder. Rosemary’s Book of the Week Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it’s a …
Look for the Red Umbrella by Geoff McArthur. Rosemary’s Book of the Week Look for the Red Umbrella | Geoff McArthur Of the thousands who headed to the Australian Goldfields in the 1850s to find riches, not all would search for gold… With fortunes to be made in trade and business in these booming populations, only those …
Chinese Roots by Yvonne Horsfield. A biographical account of the well-known Ballarat Tong Way Family from 1863 onward. This account is filled with the historical impacts of a family looking to find a home while they deal with the battles of religion and the introduction of the White Australia Policy. Chinese Roots is an honest …
