Some Recommendations from Young @ Heart Book Group

Fast-paced story lines, meticulously researched detail, but also a tingly speculation in joining up the known historical facts that makes you wonder: ‘Could it really have happened this way?’ Our book clubbers discovered some brilliant True Person Fiction over the holidays! 

The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
You may never have known what happened behind the scenes when Anne Morrow, a shy college girl in the 1920s met and married the dashing aviation hero Colonel Charles Lindbergh.  Why would she keep the secrets that she did – and what if she were interested in flying?

Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant by Cristina Sanders
Now missing for 156 years, the sailing ship General Grant was wrecked in a cave on the Auckland Islands one dark and stormy night.  Who were the 14 men and one inconvenient woman who survived, and whatever happened to the gold?

Churchill’s Triumph by Michael Dobbs
Imagine in same room Stalin, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.  It is February 1945 and their job is thrash out the details of peace. Supposedly allies, but each with their own agenda – how will they ever reach an agreement?

Also hitting the spot for a nail-biting read was The Ghost by Robert Harris. While ghost-writing the memoirs of a former prime minister, an aide falls from a ferry - or was he pushed? Will the new ghost-writer meet the same fate as he begins to uncover some unprintable political secrets?

5 February 2024

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