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Thinking Of You - The Ultimate Escapist Read
Jill Mansell, unlike other writers in the rom-com arena, seems to get better with every book she writes. Thinking of You is her latest offering and proves that it is possible to get better with age!

Ginny Holland, a best selling author if left rattling around in her house on her own after daughter Jem goes to university. Lonely, she advertises her spare room for rent. Instead of a happy roommate, she gets moaning Laurel who is still hung up on her ex-boyfriend. If that wasn’t enough, Ginny finds herself lusting after two men who can only be bad for her. Will Ginny get the man of her dreams, or will he be the one that gets away?

Mansell has a disarming ability to create characters that you already know and that tends to make her books impossible to put down. This book is no different. It is charmingly written, hopelessly funny and will make you forget all of your own troubles as soon as you read the first page.

(ISBN: 0755328116, ISBN-13: 9780755328116)

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Title: In Search of a Distant Voice
Author: Taichi Yamada
ISBN: 0571229727
EAN: 9780571229727
New Ed. Edition
208 Pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2007-03-01

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A spellbinding, surreal story about a man painfully at odds with his surroundings.

Exquisite ... Yamada's carefully nuanced atmosphere of melancholy yearning is as light as a crow's feather.

It's shivery, seat-edged stuff, evocatively translated by Michael Emmerich.

Haunting ... a captivating blend of naturalism and supernaturalism in which Yamada gives full play to his storytelling abilities.

A woman is trying to contact Kasama Tsuneo at a crisis point in his life. But she won't reveal her identity. Kasama is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an event that happened eight years previously, when he lived in the USA. His arranged marriage is looming, and he's seized by a strange emotional fit. And then the disembodied voice begins. All Tsuneo can do is desperately chase this woman, and the mystery behind what happened eight years earlier over the sea.

2008-03-16 Compelling read

Quirky, spellbinding, surreal, haunting, supernatural are words I would use to all describe this amazingly compelling novel.

Kazama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to come to terms with a dark secret that happened 8 years previously when he was living illegally in America. He starts to hear a woman's voice in his head. Is he having a supernatural experience? Is she a ghost? Or is he suffering the effects of being bi-polar? The story follows him trying to trace this voice and it comes to a weird, yet satisfying conclusion. This book was a page-turner for me and I highly recommend it.