Good morning everyone today on Two For Tuesday I’m featuring the two VMC editions I’ve collected so far. I absolutely love this collection as the covers are always really beautiful and striking. The inspiration for this post came from the lovely @lovedreadingthis who is thinking of starting her own collection soon
I’m reading one of these a month for the #vmcbookclub run by the lovely @r4ch4elreads and @bookbeforeuleap . If you’d like to join us do contact one of them. We are reading Mrs Palfey at The Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor next month.
Do you have a favourite classic book?
The Tortoise And The Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
Imogen, the beautiful wife of barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, tweedy, middle-aged and ungainly – the very opposite of Imogen – seems to be vying for Evelyn’s attention. And to Imogen’s increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding – for in affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
High in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General’s harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. Now it sits abandoned, windswept and haunting.
The palace is bestowed to the Sisters of Mary, and what was once known as ‘the House of Women’ becomes the Convent of St Faith. Close to the heavens, the nuns feel inspired, working fervently to establish their school and hospital. But as the isolation and emptiness of the mountain become increasingly unsettling, passions long repressed emerge with tragic consequences . . .
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