Looking for some summer reading? Why not drop by the Mill Honestly Library? Here’s a few recommendations from our staff and volunteers.
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Helen Bigham – Business Development Manager
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, Deborah Rodriguez
Fast paced summer light read although still thought provoking – set in a cafe in war torn Afghanistan about lives of 5 very different women. Culture, honour and family all covered.
Sue Grant – Mill Volunteer
Us, David Nicholls
A perfect marriage and a perfect holiday planned. What can go wrong?
Nicholls writes with his hallmark wry perception and gives us not only very moving reflections on love, loss, betrayal and bereavement, but also laugh-out-loud descriptions of what happens when his narrator’s meticulously planned grand tour of Europe descends into farce while he desperately tries to keep his family together.
And – who can resist a book whose characters include a series of fruit flies, all called Bruce, each kept as a pet “in its own special jar with a tiny rug and doll’s house furniture”?
Charlotte – Administrator and Events Volunteer
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
A insightful look at the underworld of India, written in the first person it engulfs you in this dark and dangerous tale.
Isabel – Honesty Library volunteer
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
Set in a transitional time between Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon identity, this tale explores the collision of cultures, and whether memory in this and in a personal context is a curse. Old age and mortality thrown in. Not a lot of laughs, but that’s Ishiguro for you.
Helen J – Comms Coordinator
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang
This account of the courage and resilience of three generations of women’s experience in China isn’t a light-hearted summer read. But it is moving and inspiring and a book I have often thought about, long after I first read it.
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