We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

I read this February 2015
For Waterstones book Club
 Warning PLOT SPOILER ALERT
The story centres around a girl called Rosemary who is bought up for the first 5/6 years of her life alongside a chimp called Fern.  You don't find this out until about page 77.  It is a book of family dynamics and sibling rivalry.  When Fern kills a kitten she's sent away - the plot starts with Rosie looking back and trying to remember sequences of events.   The incident led to her brother Loweel leaving home and becoming an animal rights acitivist

I really enjoyed this

9/10

Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith

I read this February 2015

Another in the 44 Scotland Street series, much the same light easy reading a the others.  I never believe the characters but don't really care it's fiction and it's a good read for bedtime.

6/10

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

I read this February 2015
For Waterstones Book Club

A bitter sweet tail told through the eyes of an elderly woman in the first stages of Alzheimer's.  The Heroine's friend is 'missing' and her search intertwines with the disappearance of her sister when she was a teenager.
Funny, sad, intriguing
A good easy read
I enjoyed it
8/10

Him Her Him Again the end of Him by Patricia Marx

I read this January 2015

An American girl who starts off as a PhD Student in Cambridge, and her long term on off love affair with Eugene.

A quick read, Ok

5/10

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres

I read this January 2015

Set against the background of the collapsing Ottoman Empire a Gallipoli... very well written, Love LdB books, but I think this is my favourite.

10/10

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

I read this November 2014

A murder mystery, chosen for the Waterstones Book Club.

I enjoyed this

8/10

The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom

I read this winter 2014
It was a Waterstones book club choice.

A new novel set in the 1930's.  A detective story, set in Norfolk.  Very light and enjoyable
8/10