Advantages: Fascinating characters, brilliantly descriptive, leaves you thinking for hours after Disadvantages: Background setting at the beginning is too long , I almost gave up and missed a fantastic book
I'm quite a fan of the Richard and Judy Book club, and have read some fantastic books I probably wouldn't have had they not been one of their recommendations. Working my way through the 2009 list, I have just finished The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin.
The book tells the story of Lilly Nelly Aphrodite, illegitimate child to a cabaret dancer, born in Berlin at the turn of the twentieth century.
Quickly orphaned she is took in by Sister August at a catholic orphanage, where she meets Hanne who will become a life long friend.
We follow the struggles Lilly faces as she leaves the orphanage to go into domestic service, through the first world war and the subsequent post war years of the Weimer Republic. As circumstances work against her Lilly is forced to continually reinvent herself, for her own survival leading ...
Advantages: smell nice Disadvantages: pollen gets on clothing
again next year
Lilies can be grown indoors to grace your house, or some species are more suitable to gardens.
Lilly bulbs should be planted in the autumn outside or in a cool place, like other bulbs. Bulbs are available from garden centres and see adverts in gardening mags or on line for retailers. Thanks for reading Mary ...
mumsymary 25.09.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Lillium
Advantages: Interesting story, amazing history Disadvantages: None, I adored it!
I purchased this book purely by chance, it was one of my recommended titles on Amazon and I thought the front cover looked really interesting. This is also a book recommended by the Richard and Judy Book Club.
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This book is also published by another publisher and under a different name (Glimmer Palace) which I found out when I ordered it from Amazon thinking it was another book by Beatrice Colin, but when I started reading it, I had some strong feelings of deja vu. Just a little warning!
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The plot
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The book follows the a young girl called Lilly Nelly Aphrodite who is in an orphanage in Berlin, we ...
