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Hello and welcome Emily

I'm just over half way through and really enjoying it.

I love Great Expectations, going to try and get a copy of A Christmas Carol as I've never read it.

Ok I've started reading A Whispered Name by William Brodrick, picked up on a whim from the library last week but looks quite a poignant read given that it has just been Rememberance Day. When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at Larkwood, he is dismayed by her allegations about Father Moore, the man who shaped his own vocation. Even more disturbing for Anselm is the old man who has accompanied her, standing with his head bowed, weeping. During the slaughter of Passchendaele in 1917, an Irish soldier faced a court martial for desertion. On the panel was a young Captain, Herbert Moore, charged with a responsibility that would change the course of his life. So Anselm embarks on a journey to uncover the secrets Father Moore had always kept hidden....

Hello and welcome Lexi

Bangers and mash here tonight

Yes that was the only part I struggled to get my head around apart from that it was great.

Congratulations on your win Janet

I finished The Love Of My Life a couple of days ago but forgot to update my thread. I really enjoyed this and could sympathise (?sp) with Olivia having been through the same sort of thing, but only to a point (no brother in law affair!). The emotional roller coaster she goes through is well written without being depressing. It was an easy and enjoyable book to read and I'd recommend it. I was going to start another book but then got a pm to say Tess Gerritsen's latest is on its way so I shall wait (with baited breath ) for this to arrive and read that instead.

Couldn't have put it better myself What ever do you mean Raven

I'm not an ice cream fan but I adore the cherry carte dor

Ok I've picked up The Love Of My Life by Louise Douglas Olivia and Luca Felicone had known each other nearly all their lives, but when they fall in love as teenagers and elope to London they broke the hearts of those closest to them. Luca's parents run Marinella's restaurant, the colourful hub of life in the otherwise bleak north-eastern town of Watersford, and his mother, Angela, has never forgiven Olivia for causing such a rift in her beloved family. On a freezing January night Olivia's life is shattered when she learns that Luca has been killed in a car accident. She is left with nothing and, after suffering from weeks of overwhelming grief, she abandons her job and returns north to where Luca has been buried in Watersford. Olivia's chance meeting with Luca's married twin brother, Marc, leads to the realization that he is experiencing a loss almost as painful as her own. Their desolation draws them into an affair, which both know has no future but which fills the space where Luca should be. It is a course of action that can only spiral out of control, and when it does the consequences are both explosive and cruel....

You missed the biggest 'check' of all - Sean Bean I watched this too and thought it was great, as usual

Stayed up late last night to finish Blue Diary, I really enjoyed this book. It got the old grey cells thinking what would I do in that situation? I came to the conclusion I would do the same as Jorie only sooner. I even dreamt about it last night which is a first! Not sure what to read next, I'll pop back and post later

Roast turkey and all the trimmings

Hello and welcome Twinkle

Hello and welcome Damian.