Tea With Tales Returns for Another Year

While enjoying cheese scones and a cuppa we shared memorable New Year Eve celebrations.

Our reading was from Here One Moment by Australian author Liane Moriarty. On a Hobart to Sydney flight a woman walks through the plane telling passengers what age they will die and from what. Very thought provoking.

Several readers enjoyed books that were recommended in our last get together. Starting with The Rembrandt Affair, the 10^th novel in the Gabriel Allon series written by Daniel Silva. A good read was the verdict.

Another author with a large series is Ian Rankin. In Exit Music only a few days short of his retirement, Inspector Rebus investigates the death of a Russian dissident.

Sticking with Russia but moving to non-fiction is the excellent book Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 written by military historian Antony Beevor. The book depicts the devasting struggle between the Reds and the Whites.

War fiction was a theme for several of the books enjoyed over the Christmas period. The Englishman’s Daughter by Kaye Brellend is set in World War Two. Elise, brought up by her French grandmother, travels to the homeland of her English father where she is recruited as a spy.

The characters on Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, are a young German boy and a blind French girl during the Second World War and the German occupation of France.

Shifting to Scotland in the time of a cholera outbreak The Housekeepers Promise by Evelyn Hood, Elizabeth, who has worked her way up from housemaid to housekeeper, is placed in a difficult position by the actions of her employers .

Our last book is highly recommended as a good read. My Animals and Other Animals: a memoir of sorts by comedian Bill Bailey recounts stories of Bailey’s menagerie living with his family in West London.

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