Interesting women, passionate love… and a look into the future!
It’s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business – a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance. Carità proves a valuable asset to the house, as well as a psychological puzzle to her employer. One hot night, Ian Drohan, a handsome son of a wealthy judge, visits Lila’s house for the first time, and falls madly in love with Carità. Lila doubts his sincerity and fears for Carità‘s future. But Carità has no such fears. In fact, she is a reckless force of nature, determined to succeed in ways Lila hasn’t even contemplated. Valerie Martin’s Mrs Gulliver … a steamy tale of passionate love, found and lost, and found again! Doubleday
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the small island off the coast of Ireland is change her name. To the locals, she will be Willow Hale. The second is to shave her head … no longer shoulder length blonde, it’s now cropped and grey, more in keeping with a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, and not a notorious woman trying to get away from the media after her husband committed a crime – one they think she is guilty of, too. Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did, and did not, do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all. Water by John Boyne … a story of a woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward. Penguin
It’s 2050. A climate-changed world, where humans and digital devices are closely entwined. It’s a world filled with natural disasters, drought, famine and floods. People are displaced as new immigration laws are put into effect, and the gap between the haves and have nots widens. Future Imperfect by Babette Gallard is the story of a family determined to be together … despite the horrific obstacles in their way … exhaustion, terror, the xenophobia of people struggling to protect their increasingly scarce resources. Thought-provoking, this novel raises the question of what may happen to our world in the not-too-distant future. LightEye
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