Highly recommended: Lost For Words by Stephanie Butland

Lost For Words by Stephanie Butland

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have just finished listening to the audiobook of Lost for Words and I loved it. Such an engaging story, that made me both laugh and cry. It's well-written, and it reads almost as an autobiography rather than as a novel, such is the depth of emotion and the sense of personal experience that I was surprised by the notes at the end acknowledging the help from social workers and others in creating the details of the story. Highly recommended!

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Review: A Barnstorming Saga! The Rowan Tree by Robert W Fuller

The Rowan Tree, by Robert W Fuller

Powerful, thought-provoking, political, with a splash of romance, and the constancy of love and devotion to a cause: just the sort of book I love reading. This is, in my opinion, up there with the best. It was so absorbing that it has taken over my every spare moment this last week. As a Brit I had only a rudimentary knowledge of American politics, and found the detail fascinating and the whole very well-written. I know the author has written non-fiction before, but if this is his first fiction title I cannot wait to read his next one. I enjoyed being able to follow the whole narrative through a sixty-plus year timespan, seeing how each generation took the story forward. I could see this making a very good movie or TV mini-series. If I could give this more than 5 stars I would do!