As these strange times continue, reading is giving me huge pleasure and comfort. I am mixing up my reading, enjoying some cosy crime novels, as well as classic fiction and non-fiction. I am continuing to read my way through Elsie J Oxenham's Abbey books and have now arrive at book 20 in the series. I was so delighted last week, when visiting our local bookshop, to find that Kate Fenton has written a new book. The Time of her Life is Fenton's first novel in 11 years; she suffered from a very long period of writer's block and it's great, an updating of Jane Austen's Emma. Add to the mix a spot of Miss Read, an old favourite, and some Charlotte Smith and, all in all, a very enjoyable reading month.
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Death Comes to Durham |
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Death in the Garden City |
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The Abbey Girls Play Up |
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The Time of her Life |
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The Geometry of Holding Hands |
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The Old Manor House |
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Reading Jane Austen after Reading Charlotte Smith |
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Fresh from the Country |
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The Abbey Girls on Trial |
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