Lazy summer days call for literary companionship. From fast-paced fiction to tearaway thrillers and real-life dramas, we round up some top reads for all tastes
, this follows Violet Speedwell, a 38-year-old relegated to life as a spinster and “surplus” woman after losing her fiance in World War I. Yet she is determined to forge an independent life. (Free-spirited Daisy, a colourful cast of characters and lots of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll make this book, set in the 1960s and ’70s, a thoroughly addictive read. Devour it before Reese Witherspoon’s miniseries adaptation comes out.
(Set in 1940, this is the tale of young Vivian Morris who, having dropped out of college, is sent to live with her aunt at The Lily, a down-at-heel Manhattan theatre. Here, Vivian befriends showgirl Celia and embarks on a life of glamour and debauchery. (Set in Nigeria, this riveting story of innocence lost follows a young woman struggling to rebuild her life.
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