The Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier * * * * *

What a totally engrossing and unbearably powerful novel following the life of the servant girl Griet and her master, the painter Johannes Vermeer. The book is written sumptuously and the images portrayed are amazingly vivid and real - a winner with me.

Started 16th June
Finished 18th June

Street Kid - Judy Westwater * * *

A little slow to start, but this book certainly picked up later on and had me on tenterhooks until the end - a really disgustingly brutal and abusive story that makes you angry to read it and not be able to help.


Started 7th June
Finished 13th June

The Step Child - Donna Ford * * *

Although not as gripping as the last misery memoir that I was reading was, this still kept me reading until the end. The account was disgustingly graphic and painful to read in some parts but very well put together all the same.


Started 30th May
Finished 5th June