APRIL BOOK POLL: Please vote by 2/21/2025
PICK YOUR FAVORITE FOR APRIL
- THE BEACH - ALEX GARLAND
- WEST WITH GIRAFFES- LYNDA RUTLEDGE
- BEYOND THE CRUSHING WAVES-LILLY MIRREN
These books are based off the google suggestions. I grouped them together by books based in other locations that tell about a true experience or is something based on folklore stories in this area. April is about experiencing new places.
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BEYOND THE CRUSHING WAVES: Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events.
Mary Roberts is a poor gutter child living in a council flat in 1950’s London. When she and her sister are left at an orphanage by their mother, they don't think their lives can get any worse.
Harry Evans is an orphan who finds himself, with Mary and her sister, on board a ship bound for Australia. They're sent to a farm school for children, where abuse and neglect are rife. A journey that will change their lives forever, and from which they’ll never return.
Married to her dream man, and with a baby on the way, Dr Mia Sato’s life is in perfect order. When her beloved grandmother has a fall, the photograph clutched in her hand prompts Mia to ask questions her grandmother isn’t willing to answer. When she cries out a confession that rocks Mia to her core, it leads to a shocking discovery of a past filled with lies, broken families and forced child migration.
Based on one of Britain's most secret and shameful real-life scandals in which over 100,000 British children were forcibly deported to Canada, South Africa, and Australia over several decades. Lilly Mirren’s heartbreaking, captivating and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us that no matter where the journey leads us, our heart will always find its way home to those we love.
For readers of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdad Sings.