I Loved Every Minute Of It!
Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy is the kind of book that you don’t want to let go of until you’re finished, and when you are, you feel full of something deep in your heart, have a catch in your throat, and eyes that want to water. The next day, you go back to the book to save the passages you couldn’t take the time to when you were in a hurry to find out what happens next. Each passage you locate leads you closer to understanding fully what Helen Cartwright is experiencing throughout the book. Another book released recently, The Life Impossible by Matt Haig, covers similar terrain, “Once upon a time there was an old woman who lived the most boring life in the universe. That woman rarely left her bungalow, except to see the doctor, help at the charity shop, or visit the cemetery. She didn’t garden any more. The grass was overgrown, and the flowerbeds were full of weeds. She ordered her weekly shopping. She lived in the Midlands…She was only seventy-two, but since her husband passed awa...