Two new page-turners from very different, but much adored, authors are on the docket early next month. I'm eagerly anticipating both!
Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje. Ondaatje, whose novel The English Patient won numerous awards, brings readers a mesmerizing new novel about siblings, Nathaniel and Rachel, whose parents leave them with a shadowy, possibly criminal, figure known as Moth. Moth and his wartime cohorts in 1945 Singapore have lots to teach the two teenagers. The mystery darkens and deepens when their mother returns...minus their father. Also available in Large Print.
Two Steps Forward, by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist. For centuries, pilgrims have walked the hallowed route called the Chemin, or the Camino de Santiago, that ends in northwestern Spain. California artist Zoe, grieving after the sudden death of her husband, decides to get away and visit an old college friend living in the South of France. On a whim, she decides to walk the pilgrimage road. English engineer Martin, still stunned after his divorce, is on the Camino road-testing his prototype for a new cart design. Simsion, best known for his best seller The Rosie Project (2013), and co-author (and wife) Buist (who writes mystery and romance novels under the pen name Simone Sinna) tell the story of these two unlikely pilgrims and their growing friendship in alternating chapters to excellent effect.
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