What I'm reading ...

I have started Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. Another author whose work I am pleased to return to. Here’s the blurb:

It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.

The Outrun - by Amy Liptrot

This is a beautifully written book that was a pleasure to read. Although her accounts of her chaotic London life were harrowing, this is offset by her descriptions of life in the Orkneys. As I always hope when I read an autobiography or memoire, I gained insights into another world.

There are a few details that were “tweaked” for the film. Nothing that detracted far from the story and I can see why the changes were made to drive the dynamic of the film.

The author has another book about her later travels to Berlin; this is a “must read” for me.