Butterfly Summer

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The father too, coming back then running away again, didn't make any sense, despite the efforts made by the author to try give the reader a plausible reason for a completely erratic behaviour. Packed with beautiful photography, this is the definitive guide to all 482 species of European butterflies (42 more species compared to the first edition) with additional information on over 60 species found in the far east of Europe, stretching as far as the Urals and Caucasus.

Butterfly Summer by Anne-Marie Conway (9781409538592 Butterfly Summer by Anne-Marie Conway (9781409538592

In London 2011 the narrator, Nina Parr, a young divorced woman of 25, is living with her mother and stepfather in the house she grew up in. The best part of this book is when Rosa May goes crazy when she finds out Becky knows about her past and tries to drown Becky so they can be together forever. Despite Rosa May’s unpredictable temper she offers Becky a release from her lonely home life, which seems increasingly shrouded in secrecy. It’s tempting to assume that the name of these familiar butterflies perhaps describes their smart appearance, with these grand red and black wings and speckles marked with military precision! The illustrations in this guide, from originals painted by Richard Lewington, show 58 British butterfly species.The novel does move back and forth in time but in the beginning we met Nina Parr in 2008 on a day which didn’t start off too great and seems to get a bit worse as the past starts to rear its ugly head. There were a couple of brilliant plot twists that I didn't see coming but aside from them I'm afraid I found this book a little boring.

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We live opposite a hedgerow, and I can be boring about gardening, and there's room for my collection of jumpsuits and all our books. I have never encountered the author before or read any of her books, but I like how she structured the story and merged everything together. There were so many aspects I loved thrown into this book – family secrets, mysterious ancestors, secret inheritances, a hidden country house. The author made excellent use of the past as an aid to explaining circumstances and events in the present and how characters came to be who they were or why they acted as they did. I've written 13 novels and several short stories and one Quick Read, which is an excellent way of getting people into reading more.Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you've been waiting all your life to hear. This second (mainly) hot and dry summer in a row is good news for butterflies – and butterfly watchers.