BOOK OF THE MOMENT
This 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction tells the remarkable journey of one young woman’s escape from working on a southern cotton plantation in Georgia to try and make a new life in the north. The story is brutal but totally inspirational.MISSED OPPORTUNITY
The assumption would be that ordinary people aren’t interesting, but Anne Tyler keeps us wonderfully absorbed with this short but thoroughly enjoyable tale about just that – a gem of a read for a lazy weekend.THE WILD CARD
‘The Enchanted April’ brings together four very different women looking to escape dreary London for the sunshine. Each independently take up the offer of an advertisement in the Times newspaper.‘To those who appreciate Wisteria and sunshine. Small medieval castle to be let for the month of April’.
SPRING INTO MARCH
Spring celebrates new life. Time to appreciate the everyday and the written word that makes the ordinary extraordinary. We are on the cusp of warmer days and lighter evenings so let’s enjoy the optimism of March with The Reading Den’s 3 Bright Ideas.
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