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Angela’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Angela’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Angela Petch
Goodreads Author
Born
in Rinteln, Germany
Member Since
January 2015
History with mystery …
The Lost Garden, out on September 11th, is a little different from my other World War Two historical fiction novels. I’d describe it as history with mystery and a lacing of supernatural.
The principal setting is based on a town near to me, over the border from Tuscany and into Romagna, half an hour’s car drive from where I live each summer. Perched above the town of Sant’Agata Feltria is the most e
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The Tuscan Secret
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The Tuscan Girl
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2020
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The Tuscan House
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2021
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4 editions
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The Postcard from Italy
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2022
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A Tuscan Memory
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The Girl Who Escaped
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The Sicilian Secret: Completely gripping and heartbreaking WW2 fiction
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Mavis and Dot
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The Lost Garden
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La chica de la Toscana
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"'The Lost Garden' is a beautifully crafted novel that stayed with me a long time after I finished reading it. I was soon immersed in Italy at the time of the Nazi invasion of the country in WWII and life under Mussolini. I loved the fact that the sto"
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"1939, Castle of Montessecco. At just sixteen, Contessina Ernestina Di Montesecco is weary of the tedious monotony of her life, secluded within the damp walls of her father’s castle, which overlooks the quaint town of Sant'Agnese. One morning, she fol"
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"The Lost Garden is a hauntingly beautiful novel that weaves together themes of memory, love, and the devastation of war with remarkable sensitivity. From the opening pages, the author's prose feels almost musical; her sentences flow with a rhythm tha"
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| There are a few #ww2 stories out at the moment about evacuees, orphans and misplaced children but I like the approach in What we Left Behind. The author draws us in with the “slave market” scene in a Welsh village, where “all the best ones have alrea ...more | |
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The logorrhea of lexical lingo and love... Audrey’s books are always entertaining. She has a ready wit and had me smiling throughout this story of young, yearning love. Mike is full of lust for Arabella, aka Bella, and I found him a very likable charac ...more |
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"There's something deeply satisfying about diving into a new Kerry Fisher book. You know quality writing will ooze from every page. That your emotions will be shaken, feelings thrown around until you're not sure whose side you're on. Almost the title "
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Initially I was completely bowled over by this book. Joseph O’Connor has an eye for detail, that is certain, and the descriptions are at times more like a narrative poem than a thriller. In Chapter One, we have a vivid description of a heavy vehicle ...more |
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This charming book is a collection of short stories written originally for the ears of a writing group. That means you can read it in different sittings, with a cup of tea and a slice of sponge cake that Mrs Arbuthnot might deign to share if she appr ...more |
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“Are there not always at least two way of looking at the past?” This evocative, poignant read is Rosanna Ley at her best. I loved the layers of mystery that she weaves in and out of the story, leaving us on the edge of our seats at the end of the chap ...more |
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Page turner Wow! Just wow! Jewell has done it again: created a twisty ,complex drama out of seemingly ordinary lives, the plot tangling and writhing like a terrible cancer so the reader doesn't know who to believe of trust. And what an ending. Highly re ...more |
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“young believe they will be young forever, and the old have always been old.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
“They were very dark times for me, but my doctor was a kind woman and she urged me to continue to write down my feelings. And writing did help a little.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
“How lovely is youth Which is over far too soon! Grab your happiness while you may: There is no certainty in tomorrow.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
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“Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
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“Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.”
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