Reviewed by Books & Co regular reviewer Lotte 🙏
‘Sunday Brennan, now 29, left her New York City life and family for a writing career in LA leaving behind her Dad, brothers and high school sweetheart and fiancé, Kale.
After a car crash, her brother Denny, always her protector, takes her back to New York, but going home is never easy. People want answers to why she left, her brother has made disastrous business decisions for the family business and Kale is now married with a son.
This is a true family drama at it’s very best - complex, dysfunctional and very loving - with a super flow in the writing (this is a debut, btw !) The story is broken up into chapters that are each narrated by a different family member. A great idea that works really well. The Brennans is a great read and could make it into my top 10!’
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Reviewed by Celina Mina, thank you! 🥰
‘ I joined a monthly bookckub last year through Books & Company. My intentions for joining were to read books I wouldn’t normally choose to read and to become a part of a new community of people from whom I can learn, thus broadening many aspects of my intellect and life in general.
This was the book we read in September and discussed at the beginning of October. I found it truly fascinating.
As one book club member jokingly said: ‘ It’s like a parenting book for pet owners’. I currently don’t own a pet but I have two children. and I know it’s one thing to make sure they are fed each day and another thing to create a home environment in which they flourish mentally and emotionally.
This is what this book explains regarding animals and their mental health.’
Happy reading and may we add that if you don’t know the author Temple Grandin, we suggest you look her up. She is a truly remarkable person.
RESERVE YOUR COPY OF Animals Make Us Human
‘I picked up this book over the summer thinking it would be a light holiday read about four college friends. Well, I was wrong…kind of.
It is the story of four young women from different backgrounds who meet on the first day of college and immediately become not only roommates but also each other’s best friends and confidants.
However, as we follow them through university, into careers, marriages, and (in some cases) children, we come to understand that they each carry within them a secret that makes them vulnerable and begs the question: ‘Is there a limit to what we will tolerate in even our closest friends or is there a point at which we must draw a friendship ending line in the sand?
Well written, moving and heart-wrenching in its honest description of long-term, generous female friendships this wasn’t the light read I had expected but it was a page-turner that continues to linger months later.’
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RESERVE YOUR COPY OF The Other’s Gold
Reviewed by one of the most voracious readers we know and a long-time friend of Books & Company. Thank you, Lotte!
‘I really liked ‘My lovely Wife’ and I have to say that ‘For Your Own Good’ is also a brilliant thriller. Teddy is ‘Teacher of the Year’ at Belmont, a prestigious private school. Teddy’s resentment towards the privileged students and their parents knows no bounds and he feels entitled to exercise his judgment as he sees fit - it is for their own good! The first murder victim is the mother of one of the students and she wasn’t even the intended victim….and so the story goes.
A delightful mix of fun and thriller, the dark comedy aspect made me laugh and turn the pages even quicker to see what would happen next.
It’s a great read and the plot twists - there are many- are excellent.”
Happy Reading!