I must be in grip of mad delusion (holiday reading? with three boys aged 5, 3 and 4 months? who am I kidding?) but I am nonetheless happily stockpiling the paperbacks already. This is what I'm going for:
When God Was a Rabbit - this has had rave reviews (plus the thumbs-up from my older sister who has always been my benchmark for top beach reads) and just seems to fit the summery bill
The Paris Wife - hoping this will be like Curtis Sittingfield's American Wife (my top summer read last year) with added literary-ness and French chic. I couldn't hack more than one day married to Hemingway so interested to see how it really felt.
The Tiger's Wife - I seem to have a lot of Wifes going on, but this one won the 2011 Orange Prize, and am thinking perhaps the author Tea Obrecht might come and be a Bookclub author in the autumn, so prepping up now
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - have never read this Le Carre classic, and I suddenly fancy a pacy thriller. Perhaps to offset all the Wifes.
The Great Sea - this is a massive history of the Mediterrannean which, given we are holidaying in Cumbria this year, will give me an escape into olive groves and clear warm water. And there are 600 pages of those olive groves. Like I said, mad delusion...
What are your holiday reads going to be? Got any hot tips?
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