Hosted by Lypsyy Lost & Found my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I am reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words
I currently reading a non-fiction read, Last Woman Hanged by Caroline Overington
You can read a synopsis and an extract from this book in yesterday’s post
I have just finished The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett an interesting book about how a missed moment can change the course of lives!
Blurb
What if you had said yes . . . ?
Eva and Jim are nineteen, and students at Cambridge, when their paths first cross in 1958. Jim is walking along a lane when a woman approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid a dog. What happens next will determine the rest of their lives. We follow three different versions of their future – together, and apart – as their love story takes on different incarnations and twists and turns to the conclusion in the present day.
The Versions of Us is an outstanding debut novel about the choices we make and the different paths that our lives might follow. What if one small decision could change the rest of your life? Amazon
Next I’m planning on reading The Shadow Hour by Kate Riordan, the author of The Girl in the Photograph
Blurb
Two generations of women, and one house that holds the terrible secrets of their pasts
1922. Grace has been sent to the stately and crumbling Fenix House to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps as a governess. But when she meets the house’s inhabitants, people who she had only previously heard of in stories, the cracks in her grandmother’s tale begin to show. Secrets appear to live in the house’s very walls and everybody is resolutely protecting their own.
Why has she been sent here? Why did her grandmother leave after just one summer? And as the past collides with the present, can Grace unravel these secrets and discover who her grandmother, and who she, really is? NetGalley
So that’s my books sorted for the week – What have you chosen?
Cleopatra Loves Books 
I hope you enjoyed The Versions of Us as much as I did, Cleo. Took me a while to get into it but once I’d got the characters straight I found it hard to drag myself away from it.
LikeLike
I have The Versions of Us coming up soon! The premise is really intriguing, I just hope it isn’t too confusing to be enjoyable. I’ll look out for your review.
Here’s my WWW: https://clairehuston.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/www-wednesday-17th-february-2016/
LikeLike
Ooh, the Shadow Hour sounds really interesting! Looks like I probably can’t get it from NetGalley, being Australian, but I might have to keep an eye out for it soon.
Here’s my WWW post: https://keysandopenmind.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/www-and-wippet-wednesday-17-february-2016/
LikeLike
The Last Woman Hanged sounds like an interesting read. I’ve been reading a lot more non-fiction/biographies recently as they’re easier for me to concentrate on so I’m going to look out for this book now. Hope you enjoy your reading this week.
Here’s my post:
https://rathertoofondofbooks.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/www-wednesday-17-february/
LikeLike
I am really eager to learn what you think of Last Woman Hanged, Cleo. I hear very good things about that one, and it sounds like an absolutely fascinating case, just from your other post.
LikeLike
I think The Versions Of Us sounds quite interesting. I like books that show different pathways and what might have happened instead. And The Shadow Hour sounds like a perfect choice for my Gothic challenge. Will investigate if we will get it soon.
LikeLike
A bit of a change from your usual crime, crime, crime – sounds like you needed a change. I’m struggling a bit with my current reads. I always have more than one on the go at the same time, but this time the combination of all four rather serious and worthy volumes is proving too much and none of them are ‘calling’ to me.
LikeLike
You are quite right, I think I overdid it on the crime fiction last year and many of the books I own are from other genres and I am slowly chipping away at the pile – it’s good to have a change from time to time. As you know I’m incapable of reading more than one book at a time – I’ve been trying with short stories but I read one and the poor book got abandoned as once I’m in a book I want to finish it.
LikeLike
I’d buy The Versions of Us purely because I love that cover but I’d read it because you said it;s lovely. Happy reading! https://ireadboooks.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/www-wednesday-february-17-2016/
LikeLike
Ah you are so lovely! Thanks for visiting and leaving your link.
LikeLike
These all look so tempting…The Versions of Us has been on my radar for a while…but now I’m drawn in by The Shadow Hour. Thanks for sharing!
LikeLike
I wanted to read The Versions of Us from the moment I first saw it – I love the sliding doors premise. Lionel Shriver did it in the Post Birthday World a few years back which is also an excellent read. Really looking forward to The Shadow Hour once I’ve seen poor Louise hanged 😉
LikeLike
Last Woman Hanged sounds amazing. I haven’t read a true crime in a long time.
LikeLike
I do love true crime and from what I’ve read so far, this is going to be a good one – the woman had four trials!!
LikeLike
The Versions of Us sounds fascinating! I hope you enjoy it! Here’s my post. 🙂
LikeLike
The Versions of Us was a great read – thanks for visiting and leaving your link 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
The Versions of Us sounds really interesting. It’s on my TBR list now! Here’s my list http://hollykerr.ca/www-wednesday-what-im-reading-2/
Happy Reading!
LikeLike
I loved The Versions of Us and had wanted to read it for quite some time – I hope you do too if you get around to it.
LikeLike
Hmm – Last Woman Hanged would be my pick this week. I love the cover of The Shadow Hour, but not totally taken by the blurb. I shall await your review…
LikeLike
I wouldn’t have thought The Shadow Hour would be one you’d pick up but I am enjoying Last Woman Hanged!
LikeLiked by 1 person
The Versions of Us sounds so good, but potentially heart breaking . Can’t wait for your review 🙂
LikeLike
I really enjoyed The Versions of Us – I’d wanted to read it for a while… my review will be up soon 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Looking forward to seeing it 😀
LikeLike
I shall look forward to your review of The Versions of Us. I liked it but found it hard to keep track of the various stories in places.
Here’s my WWW – http://bookboodle.co.uk/2016/02/17/www-wednesday-february-17th 🙂
LikeLike
I really enjoyed it and loved the premise – it was slower reading than normal for me though because at the start of each chapter I had to remind myself which version was which.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I just saw a musical called If/Then and it’s kind of like The Versions of Us (based on the summary; haven’t read the book, but it sounds good). It’s about a girl named Elizabeth and how her life could go in two different ways.
-Lauren
http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com
LikeLike
I read a book by Lionel Shriver that also used a single kiss to write two different tales back in 2007 and loved it – It’s such an interesting concept but the author has to be good not to muddle the reader up along the way!
LikeLike
The cover of Last Woman Hanged was pretty attention grabbing so I clicked through to your teaser post about it… I like the writing style. It sounds pretty intriguing!
LikeLike
I’m really enjoying it – there is nothing quite like a good reconstruction of a murder trial (or in this case four murder trials) and I love deciding whether I think the suspect is innocent or guilty from the distance of well over a century.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ll be looking out for your thoughts on The Versions of Us. I’m tempted by it but not sure!
LikeLike