Really wanted to like this book and had hoped to learn more about French villages and the county people who inhabit them, as well as the language, itself. However, my lack of knowing this language prohibited me from enjoying anything about this book. So much is written in French: terminologies,...
I stumbled across this book whilst browsing and thought I'd like it and indeed I did. A cleverly constructed dual plot starting in the war and modern day. As the the story progresses we move forward in time until the two plot lines converge. I enjoyed this device and the way the plot was graduall...
Mark is looking for love in all the wrong places. He always ignores the warning signs preferring to dream, time and again, that he has finally met the perfect lover until, one day, he really does.Through fifty different adventures, Nick Alexander takes us on a tour of modern gay society: bars, ni...
The reality gap between the Hugo I dated and Hugo, Antonio’s ex doesn’t, I realise, mean that my version of the truth is the false one. Perhaps, I reason, there is a third reality, a third version of events able to encompass everything that we both believe to be true, but try as I might, and no m...
During her chemo she is still tired and nauseous – even more so than before – but this is clearly a plus, not a minus. As Jenny declares as she struggles not to vomit up the pills, “If these are a placebo then I’m Marilyn Monroe.” “Well you do have the hair,” I point out. But within twenty-four h...