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May’s Book Club Choice is The Dream House by Norwich-based author Rachel Hore. Rachel Hore worked in London publishing for nearly twenty years, latterly as Senior Editorial Director, Fiction at HarperCollins Publishers where she worked with authors such as Craig Thomas, Jane Asher and Susan Howatch. She moved to Norwich in 2001 with her husband D J Taylor the author of last month’s Book Club Choice and has built a freelance career that includes editing and advising authors, teaching at the University of East Anglia and reviewing fiction for the Guardian.
The Dream House, published in 2006, was her debut novel, and was longlisted for the 2007 Romantic Novel Of The Year Award. It was described at the time as ‘A truly wonderful tale of friendship and love unexpectedly found. Within it is the story of a past unravelled’
In the book Londoner Kate Hutchinson and her husband Simon decide to move to the Suffolk Coast with their two young children. Staying with her mother-in-law while they house hunt Kate struggles to make a new life having lost her career, friends and her independence. Kate begins to wonder if they have made the right decision when out walking she comes across the house of her dreams which belongs to Agnes a frail old lady who becomes her friend. The dying woman’s story appears to echo her own and as the past and the present begin to go hand in hand Kate is inspired to recast her own life.
The book has garnered some good reviews including ‘warm, very true to life and totally engrossing’…’brilliantly evocative, wonderfully romantic’…..a beautifully written and magical novel, about life, love and family’. Do you agree? Is it true to life?
The Dream House by Rachel Hore is presently available at Jarrold Book Department in Norwich priced at £6.99 as part of their ‘3 for 2’ offer or can be bought separately for £1 off the rrp. The Book Club choice for June will be Count the Petals of the Moon Daisy by Martin Kirby.
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