The Reader on the 6.27

Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life . . .

Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. But it is when he discovers the diary of a lonely young woman, Julie – a woman who feels as lost in the world as he does – that his journey will truly begin.

Elaine 5
Sally 7
June 8
Janine 5
Rebecca 5
Janet 6
Cai 4
Christine 8
Trude 7
Jane 5

Janet J
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A House Full of Daughters

Trude 7
Jane 8
Sally 7
Janet 8
June 7
Pauline 8
Cai 8
Rebecca 9
Christine 6
Elaine 8

All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson’s was no different: her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita, her mother’s Tory-conventional background.

A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from.

Cai M
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Message from June:

I think I can see why we didn’t get the book back sooner – maybe we should have filled in the Reward section!

June x

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