Welcome to Litsy!

This book is so good. All I want to do is sit and bed and read it. I‘m so tired. But…must…carry…on…

I will be buying the next used copy I find.

Playground reading season has begun!

Really excited to be starting this book.

A story set in 1950s London. Please use this link to read my review
https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/A-Far-Cry-From-Kensington
#london
#1950s
#fiction

A story about how two women found more than friendship in 1950s America.
Please use this link to read my review https://hubpages.com/literature/carol-a-novel
#fiction
#gay
#lesbian
#1950s

Reportage from around the 1960s. Gives a view of Poland post Stalin. There is a general sense of decay in all the pieces and each piece has hidden depths.
A book to be dipped into and read when the mood fits.
#1962

A great story that will take you back in time to London in the 1950s.
Please click on the link to read my review of this amazing book
https://hubpages.com/literature/mid-century-stories
#historicalfiction
#London
#fiction
#1950s

In 1958, Lily reluctantly leaves school to be a debutante the last year they are to be presented to the Queen. She wants to please her mother and grandmother as she submits to the endless soirées and meam girls. She makes friends and loses friends as she uncovers secrets and discovers what is truly important. Slow moving at times but I found the glimpse into the lives of debutantes at the time interesting.

Queen Elizabeth II's first investigation with an assistant private secretary - in this case a dependable, clever woman named Joan McGraw who had an "interesting war". When the Queen fears there may be a plot to sabotage her State Visits and murders in an acquaintance's house that may link to the Royal Family (however obliquely), she brings in Joan to help make discreet inquiries. An interesting denouement and I am half in love with Hector Ross.

1. Edie Howard - doing everything she can to save her business and home, The Blue Lion Hotel
2. James Geddes- artist and current resident at the Blue Lion Hotel. Flawed.

(favorites from this book, not my overall favorites of all time. Can't choose one except Emily from Emily of New Moon. Think Anne Shirley but sweeter.)

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