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I see what you mean, badly worded on my part. I meant that I read one Poldark novel a year and have now embarked on number 9 in the series of 12, The Miller's Dance.

Currently reading The Miller's Dance, Winston Graham. Number 9 in the 12 book Poldark series and an annual read.

A clergyman would know that any woman in this day and age would just have an abortion, imho. You could say that your son was born in a foreign country, which is true, but his mother did not survive the birth. Or that you adopted him in a foreign country. If you have to say anything at all

Forgive me, I'm not a church goer and not at my best just now either. I'd introduce your son and I assume everything else is none of the clergy's business. He can accept the baby or not. Or tell him you adopted.

Don't tell him he's a surrogate baby

Currently reading The Children of Gods and Fighting Men by Shauna Lawless as recommended by Books Do Furnish a Room. It's great!

I bought this.

I am now at home. Here's hoping it's a straightforward recovery from now on.

Thanks everybody. Still in and treatment ongoing.

Hi everybody. Thanks for asking about me. I am back in hospital with Sepsis! Getting better though and talk of going home soon. Not much reading done though, but will get there I've missed you !

Happy New Year!

The Secrets of Blythswood Square, Sara Sheridan. I have to admit, I bought this because it was set in my home town of Glasgow. I'm very glad I did because it's sensational! From Amazon : You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasgow is a city on the cusp of great social change, but behind the curtains, neighbours are watching, and rumours of improper behaviour spread like wildfire on the respectable Blythswood Square. When Charlotte Nicholl discovers that the fortune she has been bequeathed by her father is tied up in a secret collection of erotic art, she is faced with a terrible dilemma: sell it and risk shaming her family's good name or lose her home. An encounter with Ellory McHale, a talented working-class photographer newly arrived in Glasgow, leads Charlotte to hope she has found not only someone who might help her, but also a friend. Yet Ellory is hiding secrets of her own - secrets that become harder to conceal as she finds herself drawn into Charlotte's world. As the truth begins to catch up with both women, will it destroy everything they've fought to build - or set them both free? I have discovered that Sara Sheridan is an accomplished author and she writes very well indeed. Her prose is good, her plotting is good and her research extensive (made clear at the back of the book) without detracting from the flow of the story. Some of the characters about whom she writes are people who actually lived and did what she had them doing in the story, which is another thing that I love. I got the very sense of what Glasgow was like in 1896 and what was considered shocking in 1896. All in all, a great story and worth, in my opinion, reading. Whether you know Glasgow or not.

1 Ann Cleeves, Burial of Ghosts - completed (paperback) 2 Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men - completed (e-book) 3 Winston Graham, The Millar's Dance - completed (paperback) 4 Ian Rankin, Witch Hunt - completed (paperback) 5 Various, The Winter Spirits - completed (e-book) 6 Sara Sheridan, The Secrets of Blythswood Square - completed (e-book) 7 Shauna Lawless, The Words of Kings and Prophets - completed (e-book) 8 Ann Cleeves, A Bird in the Hand - completed, (paperback) 9 Wilkie Collins, The Frozen Deep - completed (e-book) 10 Nicola Cornick, The Winter Garden - completed (e-book) 11 C S Robertson, The Trials of Marjorie Crowe - completed (e-book) 12 Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts - completed (e-book) 13 Shauna Lawless, Dreams of Fire - completed (e-book) 14 Kate Griffen, Fyneshade - completed (e-book) 15 Henry James, The Turn of the Screw - completed (e-book) 16 Arden Powell, The Hounds of York - completed (e-book) 17 Cormac McCarthy, Child of God - completed (e-book) 18 Nathan Dylan Goodwin, The Lost Ancestor - completed (e-book) 19 Jeannette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal - completed (e-book) 20 Hourly History, Celtic Mythology - completed (e-book) 21 The Frankenstein Monster, Lynn Shepherd - completed (e-book) 22 Constance Sayers, A Witch in Time - completed (e-book) 23 Herman Melville, Bartelby the Scrivener - completed (e-book) 24 Stacy Halls, The Household - completed (e-book) 25 Ann Cleeves, The Woman On the Island - completed (short story (e-book))

Found out yesterday that there really was a man in an iron mask kept in prison, for 34 years. So I'm now reading The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas.

It's a big relief.

Just bought this, right up my street!

John Byrne, a true polymath John Byrne

Not cancer!

Juat bought My Name is Barbra: Barbra Streisand . It's a long one!

Hello and welcome to the forum. Glad to have you.

Me neither

Done and dusted. Successful and surgeon happy with results (just waiting for pathology tests). Out of hospital now and very painful but onwards and upwards.

Pre-surgery assessment done, nothing to stop the surgery. Not long now.

I did. Well, 99p which is the same thing, isn't it? I'm looking forward to it.

Just bought this. I read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow years ago and can't remember a thing about it! Always interested in the original version and it's great to get it on Kindle, so thanks for that.