Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera is one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love. One Last Look by Susanna Moore (author of In the Cut) takes us to nineteenth century India where desire can be overwhelming. Nicci Gerrard's Things We Knew Were True sees one character's first love re-enter her life after 20 years. Finally, The Tea House on Mulbery Street is a delectable debut novel from Sharon Owens.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
'Consumption and rapture, suicide and undying love, fate, vows, madness, waltzes, poems inscribed on camellia petals with the point of a pin, coups de foudre and crimes passionnels: all the palpitating paraphernalia of romanticism is lavishly distributed in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's extravaganza of a novel' Sunday Times
One Last Look by Susanna Moore
Set in 19th century India, Eleanor is surrounded by a constant entourage of servants and aides and overwhelmed by the suffocating heat and her own physical vulnerability. The Observer said: 'Moore has translated herself, without error, into the upper-class English psyche and another century... The novel is an exotic education'
Things We Knew Were True by Nicci Gerrard
Nicci Gerrard has written six collaborative novels under the name Nicci French. This is her first novel under her own name. Moving, truthful and utterly compelling, Things We Knew Were True is about love, life and the lies we tell to make it through them both.
Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens
This is a book about people and their relationships with one another. It is an easy read, with plenty to discuss with regards to the characters and their actions. Here we have a portrayal of desire in all its forms, with the use of food to demonstrate the greed and self-indulgence shown by the tea house’s visitors.
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