Top Five Books for Summer

TOP FIVE SUMMER BOOKS :

The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

Random House 2008
On a small island in the Gulf of Finland, a small girl and her grandmother walk the coast and forests uncovering the meaning of life whislt building imaginary boats and writing imaginary tales. A book which has been described as ‘perfect’.

Summer – Edith Wharton - Penguin

Classics 1993
The figure at the centre of this classic is Charity Royall, a feisty New Englander who falls in love with a New York artist.

Heat and Dust – Ruth Praver Jabvhala

Penguin 1994
A hugely atmospheric classic in which a 1970s heroine retraces the steps of her grandmother, a 1920s English bride disgraced by an affair with a maharaja.

Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver

Harper Collins 2001
Three stories human love are woven together in one humid summer in the mountains and farms of Appalachia.

Indian Summer – William Dean Howells

Bibliobazaar 2007
This American romantic comedy traces a season in the life of 40 year old Theodore Colville, who has sold his newspaper business in order to live in Florence, in an attempt to rekindle the dreams of his youth.