Warm, nostalgic and written with love!
I already absolutely love this book after such a short glimpse! It is wonderfully warm, nostalgic and written with love you can feel it emanating from every page.
I can’t really articulate why I love it so, it reminds me of lying on the lawn under a blue hazy sky, listening to planes yawing overhead and a sense of home.
The story spans 50 years travelling back and forth between the seventies and now.
Madame Burova tarot reader palmist and clairvoyant know people’s secrets, they come to her, they share them and she keeps them. She has kept secrets her whole life, but she is retiring and she has 2 brown envelopes to deliver before she is done. This is tantalising at the beginning and I want to read on to discover what secrets they hold.
We are introduced to several characters in the early chapters.
I love them, they are all so rounded, you feel you would know them if you walked into the Brighton cafe and saw them. I had so many questions reading this early part of the story - What is the significance of Vivienne, what happens to Jeanie, I want to know more about Treasure? And most of all, I want to know more about Imelda; Madame Burova and her Mum, Shunty-Mae, who already makes me smile!
I desperately need to know what happens to them all. I already feel connected to these people and want to read on!
I can’t really articulate why I love it so, it reminds me of lying on the lawn under a blue hazy sky, listening to planes yawing overhead and a sense of home.
The story spans 50 years travelling back and forth between the seventies and now.
Madame Burova tarot reader palmist and clairvoyant know people’s secrets, they come to her, they share them and she keeps them. She has kept secrets her whole life, but she is retiring and she has 2 brown envelopes to deliver before she is done. This is tantalising at the beginning and I want to read on to discover what secrets they hold.
We are introduced to several characters in the early chapters.
I love them, they are all so rounded, you feel you would know them if you walked into the Brighton cafe and saw them. I had so many questions reading this early part of the story - What is the significance of Vivienne, what happens to Jeanie, I want to know more about Treasure? And most of all, I want to know more about Imelda; Madame Burova and her Mum, Shunty-Mae, who already makes me smile!
I desperately need to know what happens to them all. I already feel connected to these people and want to read on!