Needleworker
15-09-2008, 12:16 PM
Sorry can't remember who liked to get book recommendations (you know who you are!!) I give all these a 20/10 and thoroughly enjoyed them all absolute Bliss!!
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen - Reminded me a little of the film "Practical Magic" not sure why as it's not really like it!
Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that’s been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumors of dangerous loves and tragic passions. Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic.
Claire has always clung to the Waverley’s’ roots, tending the enchanted soil in the family garden from which she makes her sought-after delicacies – famed and feared for their curious effects. She has everything she thinks she needs – until one day she waked to find a stranger has moved in next door and a vine of ivy has crept into her garden . . . Claire’s carefully tended life is about to run gloriously out of control.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garden-Spells-Sarah-Addison-Allen/dp/034093574X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477432&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garden-Spells-Sarah-Addison-Allen/dp/034093574X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477432&sr=1-1)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - Does not read old fashioned at all delightful.
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miss-Pettigrew-Lives-Persephone-Classics/dp/190646202X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477591&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miss-Pettigrew-Lives-Persephone-Classics/dp/190646202X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477591&sr=1-1)
Star Gazing by Linda Gillard -
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Whilst Marianne has had her share of men attracted to her because they want to rescue her, Keir makes no concession to her condition. He is abrupt to the point of rudeness, and yet oddly kind. But can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Gazing-Linda-Gillard/dp/0749938978/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477770&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Gazing-Linda-Gillard/dp/0749938978/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477770&sr=1-3)
Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard - Do not be put off with the fact she has mental problems.
Rose has suffered mental illness but is working on a strategy to cope, moving to a small community where, in peace and quiet, she can work on her patchwork quilts. She thinks herself happily partner-free after the hurt caused by a long-term lover but she reckons without Calum, the poet, and without Calum's own demons.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Geology-Linda-Gillard/dp/1905175078/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477831&sr=1-2 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Geology-Linda-Gillard/dp/1905175078/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477831&sr=1-2)
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Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen - Reminded me a little of the film "Practical Magic" not sure why as it's not really like it!
Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that’s been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumors of dangerous loves and tragic passions. Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic.
Claire has always clung to the Waverley’s’ roots, tending the enchanted soil in the family garden from which she makes her sought-after delicacies – famed and feared for their curious effects. She has everything she thinks she needs – until one day she waked to find a stranger has moved in next door and a vine of ivy has crept into her garden . . . Claire’s carefully tended life is about to run gloriously out of control.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garden-Spells-Sarah-Addison-Allen/dp/034093574X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477432&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garden-Spells-Sarah-Addison-Allen/dp/034093574X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477432&sr=1-1)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - Does not read old fashioned at all delightful.
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miss-Pettigrew-Lives-Persephone-Classics/dp/190646202X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477591&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miss-Pettigrew-Lives-Persephone-Classics/dp/190646202X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477591&sr=1-1)
Star Gazing by Linda Gillard -
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Whilst Marianne has had her share of men attracted to her because they want to rescue her, Keir makes no concession to her condition. He is abrupt to the point of rudeness, and yet oddly kind. But can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Gazing-Linda-Gillard/dp/0749938978/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477770&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Gazing-Linda-Gillard/dp/0749938978/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477770&sr=1-3)
Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard - Do not be put off with the fact she has mental problems.
Rose has suffered mental illness but is working on a strategy to cope, moving to a small community where, in peace and quiet, she can work on her patchwork quilts. She thinks herself happily partner-free after the hurt caused by a long-term lover but she reckons without Calum, the poet, and without Calum's own demons.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Geology-Linda-Gillard/dp/1905175078/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477831&sr=1-2 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Geology-Linda-Gillard/dp/1905175078/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221477831&sr=1-2)
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