The Reading List #28
It’s been a while, but this title can mean only one thing: it’s book time again. Here’s the latest wonderfully random selection I’ve been getting through… The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey In 1920s Alaska , Jack and Mabel are looking for a new start, but still haunted by the baby they lost ten years before. When a little girl appears on their land, they begin to question who she is, and whether they have room in their hearts to form new relationships. This is a beautiful novel that reads like a fairytale. The concept of grief was explored in a very sensitive fashion, and I enjoyed being left with such an ambiguous ending. I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes This is an epic. There’s a murder in a Manhattan hotel. There’s a beheading in Saudi Arabia . And the list goes on, with one figure seeming to link them all. Pilgrim is an intriguing character – you know both so much and so little about him. It’s a complex novel, with a lot of threads, and therefore takes so...