In June, members of Cootehill Library's Reading Group were given surprise reads. The choices went down a treat! All books were rated by the group at 4 stars. Why not reserve some of these titles on our Catalogue now by clicking on the Book Images below??
The May Bride by Suzannah Dunn
I didn't stand a chance: looking back over thirteen years,
that's what I see. In the very first instant, I was won over, and of course I
was: I was fifteen and had been nowhere and done nothing, whereas Katherine was
twenty-one and yellow-silk-clad and just married to the golden boy. Only a few
years later, I'd be blaming myself for not having somehow seen ... but seen
what, really? What - really, honestly - was there to see, when she walked into
Hall? She was just a girl, a lovely, light-stepping girl, smiling that smile of
hers, and, back then, as giddy with goodwill as the rest of us. When Katherine
Filliol arrives at Wolf Hall as the new young bride of Jane Seymour's older
brother, Edward, Jane is irresistibly drawn to the confident older girl and
they develop a close and trusting friendship, forged during a long, hot country
summer. However, only two years later, the family is destroyed by Edward's
allegations of Katherine's infidelity with his father. When Jane is also sent
away, to serve Katharine of Aragon, she watches another wife being put aside,
with terrible consequences.
Someone to watch over me by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of
burning down his care home and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his
secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he
didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of
Magga, killed in a hit and run on her way to babysit?
The Dinner by Herman Koch
A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a
fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings
of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the
banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But behind the empty words,
terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new
course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen year old son.
The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an
act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable
insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax,
the conversation finally touches on their children, and as civility and
friendship disintegrates, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go
to protect those they love.
The Free by Willy Vlautin
Leroy, a young, wounded, Iraq veteran, waking to a rare
moment of clarity, his senses flooded with the beauty of remembering who he is
but the pain of realising it won't last. When his attempt to end his half-life
fails, he is taken to the local hospital where he is looked after by a nurse
called Pauline, and visited by Freddie, the night-watchman from his group home
for disabled men. As the stories of these three wounded characters circle and
cross each other, we come to learn more of their lives. The father who caused
her mother to abandon them both, and who Pauline loves and loathes in equal
measure, the daughters Freddie yearns to be re-united with and, in a mysterious
and frightening adventure story, the girlfriend Leroy dreams of protecting.
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