Rosie: Scenes From a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain
Why I have it: Spotted at Lady Fancifull.
Summary: Tremain’s reflections on her childhood – from post-war London and to summers on her grandparents’ farm in the Hampshire countryside, to how she came to be dispatched to a prison-like boarding-school.
I’m thinking: Yes.
Places I Stopped on the Way Home by Meg Fee
Why I have it: Spotted at A Life in Books.
Summary: Essays about the men who (for better or worse) helped define the author.
I’m thinking: Maybe – the writing is good but not sure I need more relationships-in-NYC stories at the moment.
The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard
Why I have it: Read about it somewhere earlier this year.
Summary: On a family holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard, aged 11, and his brother Nicholas, 9, are playing in the sea. Suddenly Nicholas is out of his depth and drowns. Richard does not attend Nicholas’s funeral and afterwards the family return to Cornwall to continue the holiday. Soon they stop speaking of that day at the beach altogether. This is Richard’s story.
I’m thinking: Yes.