May Round-Up – The Books I Read In May 2016

In May I read seven books, all of them fiction: A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker (Doubleday) – My first read of May was a fictionalised retelling of the life of Irish writer Samuel Baker. With events focusing around the Second World War it is the story of how Samuel adapted to life …

A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker

I’d heard great things about Jo Baker’s previous novel Longbourn so was excited to have the opportunity to read an early copy of her latest novel, A Country Road, A Tree. ‘The world is ending, and it is exuberantly, ridiculously beautiful.’ Told in three parts, A Country Road, A Tree is a fictional re-telling of …