Paul has lost his Jenny, Mary lost her David. Two years along the road they both are struggling with their loss still. How to move on when you lost your soulmate, your reason for living? What to do if you want to live in reality, but can’t see it, being stuck in the past, in dreams you don’t want to dream? You will breath in and out, but without the notion you’re doing so. You talk to your best friends, who hate to see you like that and are trying with all their might to make you understand you really have to start living again. But how? Paul and Mary have a mission: they have to stop living in the past and take on the reality of the present. And they need each other to do that, somehow they know, they knew all along, but how to meet when you still have Jenny and David to deal with? What then?
this is a preview of water sign — kieron connolly
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Lily lives with T. Ray, her father. Her mother died when she was four years old. Despite Lily’s efforts towards T. Ray to get some love and attention from him, all he gives in return is for her to work in the peach stall without books and her knees in grit on the ground when she does something she shouldn’t. The summer of 1964 is not any different until there are some bees in Lily’s room. These bees, Lily thinks, are sent to her for a reason.
When Rosaleen, the help T. Ray hired to mother Lily, is being arrested and thrown in jail for no more reason than the fact that Rosaleen is black, Lily takes control. She frees Rosaleen and they run away towards a place Lily knows holds the secret to the life of her mother: Tiburon. In that town live three black eccentric sisters by whom Lily and Rosaleen are taken in and learn what real freedom is.
this is a preview of the secret life of bees — sue monk kidd
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Eric has a great idea: going on holiday with his wife and two teenage children. The children will be leaving the nest soon and Eric wants one last vacation with all four of them together as a family. So off they go to the Trallee and caravan park. Eric decides to keep a journal of this last trip with his whole family to keep the good memories for future times. What Eric didn’t know was that all the things he has to write in his journal aren’t happy times, but are situations that go from bad to worse. And just when he thinks there isn’t any worse to come, he gets disappointed again, because there seems to be no limit to what he has to endure. It surely turns out to be a hell of a vacation!
this is a preview of what we did on our holidays — geoff nicholson
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Carl’s aunt Lil Olive lives at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center in Listre. Lil is recuperating there after a recent fall. She still has her own apartment and she wants nothing more than going back home, although she made some friends in the Center. She feels old in the Center and she is afraid it will be her last home. Carl keeps a frequent eye on his aunt and her girlfriends, who are old but not at all tired of life, concluding in all sorts of different trips to stores, lunchrooms and even the police station. And when you throw L. Ray Flowers, the amateur but passionate preacher, into the mix, you’ll get a bunch of golden oldies, who’ll steal your heart when you read this book.
this is a preview of lunch at the piccadilly — clyde edgerton
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