Three Women – Lisa Taddeo
If this book is remotely representative of ‘real’ women’s experiences, we’re all doomed. Just don’t get me started…
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Travel to the sultry landscape of rural England and meet Hardy’s doomed heroine, Tess, a dairy maid whose tragic past threatens to destroy her hopes for love and acceptance. If you have never read a Thomas Hardy novel, let this be your first…and possibly your last…
The Selchester Mysteries – Elizabeth Edmondson
If you have survived the emotional exhaustion of a Thomas Hardy novel, you deserve the treat of a light-hearted mystery series set in 1950s England, in an olde worldy village complete with a castle, an ancient Catholic family and the unsolved case of a disappearing aristocrat.