Join us on a voyage of discovery, reading a different author each month as we celebrate 12 great authors this year.
JoJo Moyes
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Alexander McCall Smith
Join us on a voyage of discovery with a different author each month.
Love Your Library – the Hampshire Library podcast
Are you an avid reader? Keen to be inspired for your next book? You’ll love our new podcast series which is free to download and subscribe. You’ll find two episodes to download straightaway which feature interviews with Shetland and Vera author Ann Cleeves and AGA-saga queen Joanna Trollope. You’ll also hear book recommendations from our… Continue reading Love Your Library – the Hampshire Library podcast
Mr Golightly’s Holiday by Salley Vickers
Many years ago Mr Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction which grew to be an international best-seller. But his reputation is on the decline and he finds himself out of touch with the modern world.
He decides to take a holiday and comes to the ancient village of Great Calne, hoping to use the opportunity to bring his great work up to date. But he soon finds that events take over his plans and that the themes he has written on are being strangely replicated in the lives of the villagers he is staying among.
He meets Ellen Thomas, a reclusive artist, young Johnny Spence, an absconding school boy, and the tough-minded Paula who works at the local pub. As he comes to know his neighbours better, Mr Golightly begins to examine his attitude to love, and to ponder the terrible catastrophe of his son's death. And as the drama unfolds we begin to learn the true and extraordinary identity of Mr Golightly and the nature of the secret sorrow which haunts him links him to his new friends.
Mysterious, light of touch, witty and profound, ‘Mr Golightly's Holiday’ confirms Salley Vickers's reputation as one of our most original and engaging novelists.