Books TO READ in September/October
Aug 27, 2018
4 minutes
compiled by DIANA PROC TER
Fiction
by Louis de Bernières (Random House UK, R290) Rosie and Daniel moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day. However, even in the lush plantation hills it is hard for them to escape the ties of home and the yearning for fulfilment that threatens their marriage. Back in England, Rosie’s three sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches for family, purpose and happiness. By turns humorous and tragic, gripping and touching, So Much Life Left Over follows a cast of
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