From award-winning author Ann Bennett, comes a heart-breaking story of love and loss set in World War 2 Burma. In 1980, Edith Mayhew, proprietor of the Tea Planter’s Club in Calcutta, is preparing to sell up after years of decline. She thinks back to 1942 when her sister Betty vanished having fled over the mountainsContinue reading “The Tea Planter’s Club by Ann Bennett #NewRelease #TuesdayBookBlog”
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A Daughter’s Promise #NewRelease by Ann Bennett #TuesdayBookBlog
A daughter’s promise to her dying father, uncovers wartime secrets that cast dark shadows over three generations of one family. In 2015, 90-year old Grace Summers receives some old sketches – the work of her deceased husband, Jack. One sketch is of a beautiful Indian woman in a street in Kuala Lumpur. This brings backContinue reading “A Daughter’s Promise #NewRelease by Ann Bennett #TuesdayBookBlog”
The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies #BookReview
Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from the past – a 25 year old newspaper clipping found in her parents’ belongings after theirContinue reading “The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies #BookReview”
Lizanne lost in a good book 