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Liane Moriarty: The Last Anniversary

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Liane Moriarty: The Last Anniversary. 2006
Storpocket (kirppis).

Sophie has unexpectedly inherited Connie’s house on Scribbly Gum Island — home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery. Sophie moves onto the island and begins a new life as part of an unconventional family where it seems everyone has a secret. Grace, a beautiful young mother, is feverishly planning a shocking escape from her perfect life. Margie, a frumpy housewife, has made a pact with a stranger, while dreamy Aunt Rose wonders if maybe it’s about time she started making her own decisions.

Cecilia Ahern: If you could see med now

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Cecilia Ahern: If you could see med now. 2005
Pocket (kirppis)

Elizabeth Egan’s life runs on order: Both her home and her emotions are arranged just so, with little room for spontaneity. It’s how she counteracts the chaos of her family—an alcoholic mother who left when she was young, an emotionally distant father, and a siste, lleaving her own six-year-old son, Luke, in Elizabeth’s care. Ivan, Luke’s mysterious new grown-up friend, enters the picture.With his penchant for adventure and colorful take on things large and small, Ivan opens Elizabeth’s eyes to a whole new way of living.

Ngaio Marsh: Death of a Fool

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Ngaio Marsh: Death of a Fool. 1957
Ljudbok (6 CD, Lovisa stadsbibba)

Set in the freezing, snowbound Winter of a small English village based on the Kent village of Birling, the plot concerns the annual performance in the courtyard of the local crumbling castle of an historic folkloric ritual. Marsh is clearly fascinated by the idea,  that ”The Dance of the Five Sons” during which the murder is committed) is a folkloric blueprint or ur-text for Shakespeare’s King Lear, a play Marsh greatly admired and herself directed in New Zealand in 1956. It’s a ”classic puzzle whodunit” form of which Ngaio Marsh was so outstanding.

 

Jessica Fellowes: The Mitford Trial

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Jessica Fellowes: The Mitford Trial. 2020
Inbunden (lånad från Lovisa stadsbibba)

Fjärde boken i serien, där jag läst Bright Young Dead. I den här är det systern Diana som är i centrum av Mitford-systrarna, medan bokens huvudrollsinnehavare nog är en annan – f.d. tjänsteflickan som är lite deckare.

Julian Fellowes: Belgravia

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Julian Fellowes: Belgravia.2016
Inbunden (från kirppis)

Den börjar på the Richmond Ball i Bryssel (the evening of 15 June 1815, the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels) – dvs. samma fest som finns i Vanity Fair (som jag såg två TV-serier om).
On at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history – the Duchess of Richmond’s ball.

Den kommer snart som TV-serie, ser fram emot det!

John Irwing: Avenue of Mysteries

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John Irwing: Avenue of Mysteries. 2017
Ljudbok (17 CD, Lovisa stadsbibba)

Juan Diego, an aging writer, travels to the Philippines while struggling with his memories of growing up as a boy in Mexico, med sin syster Lupe, som kan läsa tankar.
Här finns igen sexuella minoriteter av olika slag, liksom cirkus.

R.J.Palacio: Wonder

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R.J.Palacio: Wonder. 2017
Ljudbok (Cd, 8 h, Åbo stadsbibba)

Berättelsen om en pojke med sjukdom som ger deformerat ansikte.
Palacio wrote Wonder after an incident where her son noticed a girl with a severe facial difference and started to cry. Fearing he would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset the girl and her family but ended up worsening the situation.

Välskriven, lättlyssnad!