Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. This week, all three were profiled in a June Fiction round-up by A Life in Books.
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Summary: For two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. This year’s trip, with Rocky sandwiched between her half-grown kids and aging parents, promises to be just as delightful as previous summers. However, a chain of events sends Rocky into the past, reliving long-ago summers and revealing secrets.
I’m thinking: Yes
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Summary: When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives.
I’m thinking: Maybe
Background for Love by Helen Wolff
Summary: A young woman and her older lover leave 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the Côte d’Azur. As they drive along stunning bays and linger over sumptuous meals, they seem in sync, but as she observes her lover’s wandering eye and rigid world-view, the woman decides to leave. In a cottage of her own, she passes an unforgettable summer of independence and freedom.
Background for Love is an autobiographical novel by the publisher Helen Wolff, who together with her husband, Kurt Wolff, set up Pantheon Books in America after fleeing Nazi Germany.
I’m thinking: Yes
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Delighted to see this! Not wishing to twist your arm, but I reviewed After Annie yesterday if that helps your decision. I’ve since read Sandwich and loved it.
After Annie is the sort of book that will pop up in my library’s audio offerings, so it’s certainly not off my radar.
I have Sandwich on my TBR also, as I usually spend some time on Cape Cod each summer with family (although rarely in Sandwich itself which has a glass museum and not much else of interest). However, there are 647 holds ahead of me in the library system so it may be Christmas by the time I get it!
647 holds! My goodness.
I visited Cape Cod once, almost 30 years ago. I’m sure it has changed a lot since then, but remember it being very picturesque (with beaches quite different to what we are used to in Australia).