Book Review – Page 15 – Scuffed Granny

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

The story of Eleanor, her loves and losses, in the context of her time at the holiday home her grandfather built, The Paper Palace

A novel which is a mixture of fairytale, historical fiction and thriller, which explores immortality and the ambitions of man to acquire it

A tale of family and the impact that war can have, in its many manifestations: death of loved ones, loss, grief or in the hardship it brings

A search for a missing girl takes our heroine, Andie Yates back to Bayswater where she grew up and which holds good and bad memories for her

A novel of two tales, beautifully told, which weaves the weight of loss, youthful idealism and the limitations of old age together

An honest, sometimes excruciatingly so, collection of personal essays, which is also incredibly witty and made this reader laugh out loud

A tale of three sisters, starting towards the end point and leading us through their lives with all the ups and downs, upsets and triumphs.

A Ruth Galloway mystery which is set at the start of the pandemic and which involves a number of mysterious deaths of women

A gripping tale of discovery and redemption set in the early twentieth century America filled with treachery, tribes and tribulation

A nice novel about Emmy Lake, a young woman in the London Blitz, who decides to answer letters for an agony aunt who finds them Unacceptable