#TwoForTuesday: Books From Book Friends @WhatKatieBWrote @MichaelJBooks @lucyatkins @QuercusBooks #TheGirlsOfSummer #KatieBishop #WindmillHill #LucyAtkins

Yay for amazing book friends! Today on Two For Tuesday I’m featuring two books that the lovely @lovedreadingthis has passed onto me.

I’ve been hearing lots of great things about The Girls Of Summer and Lucy Atkins has been one of my favourite authors for a while and I’ve loved all of her books. I’m very excited to read both of these very soon.

What do you do with proofs you receive after you’ve read them?

The Girls Of Summer by Katie Bishop

Rachel has loved Alistair since she was seventeen.

Even though she hasn’t seen him for sixteen years and she’s now married to someone else.

Even though she was a teenager when they met.

Even though he is almost twenty years older than her.

Now in her thirties, Rachel has never been able to forget their golden summer together on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island. But as dark and deeply suppressed memories rise to the surface, Rachel begins to understand that Alistair – and the enigmatic, wealthy man he worked for – controlled much more than she ever realized.

Rachel has never once considered herself a victim – until now.

Windmill Hill by Lucy Atkins

One night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director causes an international scandal that wrecks Astrid’s glittering stage career, and her marriage. Her ex-husband, the charismatic Scottish actor Magnus Fellowes, goes on to find global fame, while Astrid retreats to a disintegrating Sussex windmill.

Now 82, she lives there still, with a troupe of dachshunds and her long-suffering friend, Mrs Baker, who came to clean twenty years ago and never left. But the past is catching up with them. There has been an ‘Awful Incident’ at the windmill; the women are in shock. Then Astrid hears that Magnus, now on his death bed, is writing a tell-all memoir. Outraged, she sets off for Scotland, determined to stop him.

Windmill Hill is the story of two very different women, both with painful pasts, and their eccentric friendship – deep, enduring, and loyal to the last.