💚 The titular greengage summer is the summer when five siblings were staying at Hotel Les Oeilletes in a French seaside village. The story is narrated by Cecil Grey (13 y.o.), girl number two. The rest of the siblings are Joss, the eldest girl of 16; Hester (third girl); and the Littles, Will and Vicky. But wait, are they holidaying to France unchaperoned? Initially, their widowed mother took them there to see the Battlefield of France, however she got very ill on the way, and collapsed ri...| Fanda Classiclit
Eliot, George "Die Mühle am Floss" (Englisch: The Mill on the Floss ) - 1860 Ich bewunderere klassische Literatur sehr und freue ich mic...| derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com
This was a delightful and unexpectedly insightful read. There has been a very welcome rush of Japanese novels in English translation into the anglophone market in the last few years. I’ve read a few, but this is the one I’ve enjoyed most for a relatively quick read but which also stayed with me. More importantly … Continue reading Nanako Hanada, The Bookshop Woman→| Kate Macdonald