Nineteen Letters by Jodi Perry
“I choose to live,”
“I choose to live,”
“I reckon you can never underestimate how far you would go for your child,”
by Richard Flanagan. An Australian surgeon in a Japanese POW camp is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s wife two years before.
(CONTAINS SPOILERS.)
I really don’t know what to say about this book, so I’ll just dive straight in under three titles: ‘the good’, ‘the bad’ and the ‘ugly’. But firstly, I first came across the film (TV drama, natch.) because I’d seen Richard Chamberlain play the comic role of Prince Edward in Slipper and The Rose. But… Continue reading The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough