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My mum raves about Follet and is on my "one day" list.
Twilight - I have not met anyone who read it and didn't fallmadlyinloveandloseallsanity like it a bit . I made one of DH's friends take it home with her, she looked a bit at my insistence... she came round last week, she is now on book 3 having been out to buy her own copies
The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher is by Kate Summerscale; I've never heard of her but the cover looked good!
I've only read one Ken Follet, "The Pillars Of The Earth" which is about the building of a cathedral in the 12th century and all of the lives that are affected by it. It's not brilliant but it's a nice enough story with some lovely description of the buildings. The best thing about it is that it's huge (about a thousand pages) and I read too, too quickly: this one actually kept me going for 3 whole days! The one I've linked to, "World Without End" is the follow up to this; set 200 years later.
"Twilight" is (for dp's ears at least) for my daughter really but I plan to read it first; ordered the second one too but can't remember what it's called.
My mum had told us about Pillars for years, we bought her WWE for xmas and she finally read it over the summer, and tells everyone how good it was and what amazing daughters we are.
You had probably best go order Eclipse and Breaking Dawn too....
Twilight is in my pile of To Be Read books atm. Am ploughing through Mr Y at the mo though. Had a splurge on Amazon during my free trial of Amazon Prime
I dithered about it after reading some MN fiction thread or other. I have several more "MN Recommends" books in the pile. I think. I got kind of click-happy onAmazon because of the novelty of the books arriving the next day...
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is v good. Set in the mid 1800s. True story, bit gory actually!
I'm reading Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel at the mo and loving it. Was bought for me and really didn't think I would like it. It's about a clairvoyant and her sidekick "spirit guide" and how she deals with life and the "other side". Quite funny and moving.
What should have been a happy family day out quickly becomes a nightmare! The chilling debut from a bright new talent. What should have been a happy family day out quickly turns into a nightmare for Jess Finnegan. One minute she is thankful for a few minutes' peace away from the demands of motherhood. The next she is frantically searching for husband Mickey and 8-month old Louis.They have disappeared, nowhere to be seen. As the police launch a massive manhunt, Jess's panic intensifies. Then Mickey is found, badly beaten -- and alone. Where is Louis? Is he still alive? Could he be the victim of child trafficking or something much closer to home? Just how well does Jess know her new husband? And when her wayward brother turns up out of the blue, what is he after? As the investigation unravels, Jess discovers that the people closest to you are not always what they seem!
A terrible accident. A secret discovered. An inescapable nightmare. Who needs enemies with friends like these? The unnerving new novel from the acclaimed author of LULLABY En route from ending a destructive love affair, TV producer Maggie Warren is involved in a freak accident. Lucky to escape with her life, Maggie's further disturbed to discover she's now front-page news. When invited to discuss her trauma on a chat-show, Maggie comes face to face with fellow survivor, the beautiful but damaged Fay Carter - fame-hungry, needy and now apparently infatuated. One by one the tentacles of Maggie's past mistakes seem to be reaching inexorably into her future. Her compromised career is catching up with her, ex-boyfriend Alex just won't take no for an answer - but worse, the secret Maggie has tried so hard to bury is coming back to haunt her. When Maggie's flat is ransacked, she refuses to believe it's a coincidence. Now Maggie's clutching onto sanity for dear life, but she's horribly aware that one final push might send her over the edge!or is that exactly what someone wants?
Twilight and the following books in the series are wonderful - I fell in love with them instantly and now can't bring myself to go and see the film because it won't be right..!
Thanks Nutty. Is it like a psychological thriller? Don't normally get on with them but may be judging it very wrongly from the description.
LaVie - I really enjoyed the first half of "Beyond Black" (another book with a cool cover iirc) but then I sort of lost the plot half way through and gave up on it. Thanks for the "yes" to Mr Whicher.
If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect—with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole.
But that's not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door—a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie.
Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who's on her side and who has something to hide—even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own.
Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller with one of the freshest voices and heroines to arrive in years. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine . . . .
I have a complaint about Mr Y - the black edges aren'twaterproof so, having read it in the bath, I was left with black fingers. Which didn't wash off that easily.
. I made one of DH's friends take it home with her, she looked a bit 
at my insistence... she came round last week, she is now on book 3 having been out to buy her own copies 
<shallow> 
That is never good when people say that about books I am not confident in!! I change my mind about Mr Y with the wind 
Half wrecked a lovely looking good old book 
