I’ve been reading quite a bit of new fiction lately. These titles have recently been cataloged within the library if you’d like to check them out.
“The Homecoming” by Rosie Howard is a contemporary fiction title set in England, and primarily in a pub called The Havenbury Arms.
A young woman returns home to help an old friend run his pub, and is forced to confront the PTSD that recurs, once she is back in the vicinity of a debilitating accident.
This book is inspirational, in that it takes place in a small village where most of the population comes together to support one another.
Deborah Swift’s recent historical novel “The Silk Code” is set in London during the height of World War II and revolves around the very real method the allies used of printing codes onto silk for their agents in Europe.
The silk could be hidden in the lining of a jacket or used to tie up one’s hair. Most of the action in this book takes place in London, but it also involves the Dutch resistance.
“The Paris Agent” by Kelly Rimmer is another World War II historical fiction title. This novel goes back and forth in time, however.
Charlotte is a young woman living in Liverpool, England, in the 1970s, when she discovers her father was an agent during World War II and was involved in some harrowing missions.
Due to a traumatic head injury, her father struggles to remember the events during the war, and Charlotte immerses herself in her father’s past to help recover the stories of two very brave female agents.
The just released novel “Can’t We Be Friends,” co-written by Denny S. Bryce and Elizabeth Knight, is set during the 1950s and covers the remarkable friendship between Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. The novel begins in 1952 and goes through the decade until Monroe’s death.
On the surface, it seems these two wouldn’t have much in common, but they were underestimated by many and struggled to forge their own paths in two different areas of show business.
The above titles are in print and “The Paris Agent,” available in large print format, also is available as an e-book and e-audiobook through the Cloud Library app.
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