Lion by

I read this in August 2017 as part of the Lawshall Book Club chioces.
The story is of a young (5) indian boy who goes with hos brother to the railway, gets on a train, falls asleep and lands up miles form home, alone, on the streets and vulverable.
He lands up in a chiildren's home, then adopted by an Australian couple.  The book logs his search for his former home and family.
It was Ok but...I don't know, something not satisfying as a read about it  - I think it made a better film than book.

The Marriage Lie by Kimberley Belle

I read this September 2017 for the Lawshall book club
I was a bit apprehensive of reading a book called the Marriage Lie written by a woman! I admit I was wrong.
It's a bit like Gone Girl, but Gone Boy...
A woman thinks her husband is going to a conference in Florida and then is told he has been killed in a plane crash on the way to Seattle...
A long persecute for the truth ensues.

I tliked the way this book was going, up to the last 10% when all was revealed by her not dead husband in a sort of Batman sort of way...

But I did like the very end....

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

I read this book September 2017

Gillian Flynn is the author of Gone Girl, I enjoyed both the book and film of Gone Girl. I wasn't disappionted with this new novel.  The action centres around a reporter sent back to her home town to report on the murder of two small girls.  The homecoming is not a welcome or happy one for Camille.  Her mother step father and half sister seem to have a close relationship, in which she is not included.
The plot reveals Munchhausen by Proxy, the death of Camilles sister when she was small and a wicked world of hate and spite.

The Sharp Objects of the title is a nod to the fact that Camille is a 'cutter' and cuts words into her flesh.

Really quite disturbing, I hope this gets made into a film as well