I loved this book because it was both engaging and magical! Grace Winters rediscovery of joy on the Island of Ibiza is testimony to the transformative power of the human spirit. Haig's portrayal of Alberto is equally charming.
'A beautiful novel full of life-affirming wonder and imagination' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . .'
When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.
Among the rugged hills and golden beaches Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But…
It was a wild-ride of a story! Wells really knows how to create tension in her storytelling. Also, Sallie, tough-as-nails, is an unforgettable character.
From Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of The Glass Castle, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia
Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the twentieth century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother, who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had…
I thoroughly enjoyed this captivating tale. At first, I couldn't tell how the parallel stories were going to meet up. Trying to figure that out kept me turning the pages. I was able to suspend disbelief as the ghost-story unfolded, but had a harder time with Hogan's depiction of memory loss. Still, it was a beautifully written novel.
Full of character, wit, and wisdom, The Keeper of Lost Things is heartwarming tale that will enchant fans of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Garden Spells, Mrs Queen Takes the Train, and The Silver Linings Playbook.
Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair bobbles—Found, on the playing field, Derrywood Park, 2nd September.
Bone china cup and saucer—Found, on a bench in Riveria Public Gardens, 31st October.
Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost…
The world is fraying. Art is disappearing. And one woman sets out on the river before everything changes forever.
A few years into the future, society is unraveling. Violence is rising. The aftermath of a devastating pandemic still lingers. And across the country, a phenomenon known only as the Vanishing is causing people and works of art to disappear without explanation.
Cassie Navrone, a widowed retired teacher with silver braids and a restless spirit, takes a job piloting a luxury houseboat called the Silver Lady downriver to its owner. What begins as a long-awaited escape soon becomes something stranger: a journey through a world tilting out of balance.
On board are five fellow travelers—artists, poets, lovers, and drifters—each carrying private griefs, secrets, and reasons for boarding the boat. As the river unfolds, so do eerie landscapes, dreamlike encounters, unsettling towns, pirates, storms, and glimpses of another reality just beyond the visible one.
But as the voyage grows more surreal, Cassie must do more than keep the boat afloat. She must hold together a fragile crew, face the life she left behind, and decide whether the river is carrying them toward safety, transformation…or something they may never fully understand.
Lyrical, strange, and deeply human, Silver Lady is a magical realism novel about survival, reinvention, art, and the mystery waiting around the next bend.
