Susan’s Bookshelves: Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
My attention was drawn to Valérie Perrin’s 2020, warm, moving novel about love and loss by a French friend who read it...
My attention was drawn to Valérie Perrin’s 2020, warm, moving novel about love and loss by a French friend who read it...
It is surprising how often Radio 3’s Private Passions widens my reading. But as my own forthcoming new book (All Booked Up:...
I’m a bit late to the party with this engaging, intriguing novel but it was a best seller in 2021 when it...
This book arrived on my desk, sent by the author with my permission because Finley de Witt and I have a mutual...
Mansfield Park has the name of a house as its title – as do, for example, Bleak House, Howards End, Wuthering Heights,...
Anna Funder is Australian and this book was recommended to me by a friend who lives and reads in Brisbane. “It’s making...
One of my self-imposed Susan’s Bookshelves briefs is to keep it as eclectic as possible. So if something a bit quirky comes...
I read eclectically. And I always told my students that and advised them to do likewise. We all need variety and we...