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Book club<br />
Interesting women, natural history mysteries ... and a look into the future!<br />
Compiled by: Kym Argo<br />
It’s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island,<br />
a tropical paradise with a fragile<br />
economy and a rising crime rate.<br />
Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver<br />
is proud of her business - a highend<br />
brothel where her clients are<br />
guaranteed privacy and discretion.<br />
When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute,<br />
and beautiful blind woman arrives at<br />
her door seeking employment, Lila<br />
decides to give her a chance. Carità<br />
proves a valuable asset to the house,<br />
as well as a psychological puzzle to her<br />
employer. One hot night, Ian Drohan,<br />
a handsome son of a wealthy judge,<br />
visits Lila’s house for the first time,<br />
and falls madly in love with Carità.<br />
Lila doubts his sincerity and fears for<br />
Carità‘s future. But Carità has no such<br />
fears. In fact, she is a reckless force of<br />
nature, determined to succeed in ways<br />
Lila hasn’t even contemplated. Valerie<br />
Martin’s Mrs Gulliver ... a steamy tale<br />
of passionate love, found and lost, and<br />
found again! Doubleday<br />
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does<br />
when she arrives on the small island<br />
off the coast of Ireland is change her<br />
name. To the locals, she will be Willow<br />
Hale. The second is to shave her head<br />
... no longer shoulder length blonde,<br />
it’s now cropped and grey, more<br />
in keeping with a solitary outsider<br />
escaping Dublin to live a hermetic<br />
existence in a small cottage, and not a<br />
notorious woman trying to get away<br />
from the media after her husband<br />
committed a crime - one they think<br />
she is guilty of, too. Escaping her old<br />
life might seem like a good idea but<br />
the choices she has made throughout<br />
her marriage have consequences.<br />
Here, on the island, Vanessa must<br />
reflect on what she did, and did<br />
not, do. Only then can she discover<br />
whether she is worthy of finding<br />
peace at all. Water by John Boyne ...<br />
a story of a woman coming to terms<br />
with the demons of her past and<br />
finding a new path forward. Penguin<br />
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place with<br />
Book Darts,<br />
R425 from<br />
pezulainteriors.co.za<br />
It’s 2050. A climate-changed world,<br />
where humans and digital devices<br />
are closely entwined. It’s a world filled<br />
with natural disasters, drought, famine<br />
and floods. People are displaced as<br />
new immigration laws are put into<br />
effect, and the gap between the<br />
haves and have nots widens. Future<br />
Imperfect by Babette Gallard is<br />
the story of a family determined to<br />
be together ... despite the horrific<br />
obstacles in their way ... exhaustion,<br />
terror, the xenophobia of people<br />
struggling to protect their increasingly<br />
scarce resources. Thought-provoking,<br />
this novel raises the question of what<br />
may happen to our world in the nottoo-distant<br />
future. LightEye<br />
4 Get It <strong>Bloem</strong>fontein <strong>May</strong> 20<strong>24</strong> getitmagazine.co.za/bloemfontein
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