To be read - Earth and Heaven, The Art of Falling

   Lots of books have arrived here lately and deserve a preliminary mention before I read them, but when I chose these two from the TBR pile, I was forgetting that I had put their authors side by side once before. You may remember this post about covers; I felt the designers had done both Sue Gee and Deborah Lawrenson a disservice with the covers chosen for their superb books. I wonder if I shall feel similarly when I come to read these two.

       I was enormously impressed by Deborah Lawrenson's Songs of Blue and Gold so I am very keen to read The Art of Falling. A love affair in wartime Italy sets in motion events which will culminate fifty years on when Isabel Wainwright goes in search of her missing father, Tom. "Evocative", "uplifting", "intriguing" say the reviews; it's part love story, part detection, but whatever the content I know it will be beautifully written. 

Then Sue Gee: for me The Mysteries of Glass was close to perfection, and I loved Reading in Bed too.

 
Earth and Heaven  is "an exquisite and haunting evocation of life in the aftermath of the Great War", and "its emotional tenor remains buoyant and unfaltering from the first page to the last" - so says the TLS. It features a painter and an engraver who meet at the Slade and find happiness together until ....
     "Shot through with a shimmering apprehension of the natural world, Earth & Heaven is about life's fragility, and the power of love and painting to disturb, renew and reveal us to ourselves".

Both books sound excellent; I'll need avizandum for the covers.

Comments

[Dark Puss]

"Avizandum" - who are the pursuers and who are the defenders?

DP is taking a wee break from CERN work!

[Claire]

You had me reaching for the dictionary!