Pretoria - March 22

Violeta Del Valle comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920 ... her life marked
by extraordinary events. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt and the
Spanish flu arrives on South American shores. Told in the form of a letter to
Camilo, who she loves ‘more than anyone in this world’, Isabel Allende’s
Violeta is the emotional story of a 100 year life, the passions and heartbreak,
wealth and poverty, loss and joy, as well as a life shaped by the fight for women’s
rights. Bloomsbury Publishing • Jill Mansell writes lovely, feel-good reads ... and her
latest, Should I Tell You, doesn’t disappoint. Family, love, rejection ... all set
against a backdrop of sparkling seas. Headline Review
From a pregnant schoolgirl in 1969
to a young woman who finds out a
shocking truth about her family 35
years later, Freya North’s Little Wing
is a moving novel about family and
identity, resilience and forgiveness,
and how no-one is ever forgotten.
Welbeck Publishing
Love a thriller with a twist in the tale. And in Sarah
Bonner’s Her Perfect Twin, the twist hits you half
way through the book ... so unexpected and fast it
could give you whiplash. Leah has everything she’s
ever wanted ... fame, fortune, and freedom to do
what she wants. But she’s always wanted everything
her identical twin sister Megan has, too.
And when Megan snoops on her husband’s phone
and finds revealing, provocative photographs of her
estranged sister, it appears Leigh’s after her husband.
What follows is murder, a cover-up, secrets, abusive
relationships and a new romance, and a setback due
to a Covid lockdown. And then there’s another wowza
twist. This is Sarah’s first novel ... we can’t wait for the
next one. Brilliant! Hodder & Stoughton. This, and all
the Book Club reads, available at exclusivebooks.co.za
Compiled by: KYM ARGO
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