Catching Up with Tea with Tales

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We started with a lively discussion on games we played as children as while we munched on cheese scones.

Our book reading was from New Zealand writer Jenny Pattrick. Sea Change tells the story of a small Kapiti Coast community almost completely destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami. After the government orders a managed retreat a small number of hardy villages defy the mandate and use the resources on hand to build a sustainable life.

Just the two non-fiction books were read last month both with an English subject. Around the Village Green: the heart-warming memoir of a World War II childhood by Dot May Dunn chronicles the author’s life as war descends on the peaceful Derbyshire village. Prince Philip Revealed by Ingrid Seward starts with a privileged life in Paris. Our reader was taken with Philip’s devotion to the Queen and found this book a very good read.

Historical author Natasha Lester has another winner with Her Mother’s Secret. England 1918 and Leo West hopes to take her home-made cosmetics to New York. Fast forward to 1949 New York and promising ballerina Alice has been invited to star in advertisements for a cosmetic line. Fabulous read and hard to put down was our reader’s verdict.

Bestseller The Rain Queen by Katherine Scholes gives a very realistic view of life in Africa during the independence era of the 1960s.  Our reader said it captured the relationship between the past and present day Africa accurately. An enjoyable read.

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As it was last month, Daniel Silva’s thriller novels were being read by several readers. A complicated storyline was the diagnoses by all with most enjoying the plots whilst others struggled and one reader gave up. The novels read were An Inside Job, Moscow Rules and The Defector.

A new author for the group, Karly Lane was enjoyed by two readers. Set in the Australian outback these stories had just the right amount of romance. Bridies’s Choice, Mr Right Now and Return to Stringybark Creek were the three novels enjoyed.

 

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