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I would like to suggest A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon.

At 57 George is settling down to a comfortable retirement,building a shed in his gaden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jaz. Then Katie, his unpredictable daughter announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her family is not pleased -as her brother James observes, Ray has"strangler's hands". Katie can't decide if she loves Ray or the way he cares for her son Jacob, and her Mother is a bit put out by the way the wedding planning gets in the way of her affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the deaded nuptials.
Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.

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The Favoured Child by Philippa Gregory

The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre hall is a smoke blackened ruin.
But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry.
Only one can be the favoured child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey’s true heir.
Sensual, gripping, sometimes mystical, The Favoured Child sweeps the reader irresistibly into the 1790s and a revolutionary period in English history.

The Glass painter’s Daughter by Rachel Hore
In a tiny stained-glass shop in the hidden back streets of Westminster lies the cracked sparkling image of an angel
The owners of Minster Glass have also been broken: Fran Morrison’s mother dies when she was a baby; a painful event never mentioned by her difficult secretive father Edward. Fran left home to pursue a career in foreign cities, as a classical musician. But now Edward is dangerously ill and it’s time to return.
Taking her father’s place in the shop, she and his craftsman Zac accept a beguiling commission – to restore a shattered glass picture of an exquisite angel belonging to a local church. As they reassemble the dazzling shards of coloured glass, they uncover an extraordinary love story from the Victorian past, sparked by the window’s creation. Slowly Fran begins to see her own reflection in its themes of passion, tragedy and redemption.
Fran’s journey will lead her on a search for the truth about her mother, through mysteries of past times and the anguish of unrequited love, to reconciliation and renewal.


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Please give your suggestions of two books to read during June/July 09.
Vote Thursday 4 June

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