FINDING YOUR FEET Review: On the eve of retirement Sandra Abbott discovers that her husband of forty years is having an affair with her best friend. She… Read more “Finding Your Feet”
Category: Romance
Lemon Tree
LEMON TREE Review: The story of a Palestinian widow who lives on the Palestinian West Bank. A Israeli minister of defence builds a house adjacent to her own. Her… Read more “Lemon Tree”
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY Review: London, 1946, Juliet receives a letter from a member of a literary club started in Nazi-occupied Guernsey. She is… Read more “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
Whale Rider
WHALE RIDER Review: A young girl named Pai lives in a small village with her grandparents in New Zealand. She struggles to gain the respect of the Chief,… Read more “Whale Rider”
Hampstead
HAMPSTEAD Review: An American widow develops a relationship with a man living in a shack on Hampstead Heath, they both take on the developers who want to… Read more “Hampstead”
Truly Madly Deeply
TRULY MADLY DEEPLY Review: Pianist Nina is dealing with inconsolable grief as her partner has just passed away. She gets another chance though when Jamie returns to… Read more “Truly Madly Deeply”
Amour
AMOUR Review: Georges and Anne are a cultivated, retired music teachers. They have a daughter who lives in Britain with her family and who is also a… Read more “Amour”
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS Review: When they turn 16, four lifelong friends plan to stay connected with one another as their lives take them in… Read more “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”
Widows
WIDOWS Review: Set in contemporary Chicago, the only thing four women have in common is a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. They decide… Read more “Widows”
Mary Shelley
MARY SHELLEY Review: This tells the story of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin who wrote the most famous Gothic novels called ‘Frankenstein’ and also her relationship with poet Percy… Read more “Mary Shelley”