#TwoForTuesday: Bookclub Reads @franquinn @EmilyHabeck #BookclubReads #NewBooks #SharkHeart #EmilyHabeck #ThatBoneSetterWoman #FrancesQuinn

Good morning everyone! Today on Two For Tuesday I’m featuring two of my bookclub reads for this month.

Shark Heart is for the lovely @bestbookforward ‘s new book club. It’s been getting lots of good reviews on here so I’m very excited to read it. It sounds slightly unusual so I’m very intrigued. That Bone Setter Woman is for the #hfbookclub I’m part of run by the lovely @r4ch4elreads and @thebookdiaryofmisshewlett . I absolutely loved The Smallest Man so I’m very excited to read this one.

I will also have my book club read for the Rossiter book club which is Stone Blind by Natalie Hayes. I thought I’d bought it in hardback but I can’t find it anywhere so I think I’ll have to re-buy.

Do you belong to a book club? What’s your book club read for this month?

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last.

A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He’s turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a human. At first, Wren resists her husband’s fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis fully transforms?

But as Lewis changes, day by day, Wren begins to make peace with the inevitable. After all, this isn’t the first time she’s lost a loved one.

An extraordinary novel of love, loss, hope and happiness, Shark Heart explores the shapes that love takes, in all its many forms, and asks us to ask ourselves: what makes us human?

That Bonesetter Woman by Frances Quinn

It’s usual, they say, for a young person coming to London for the first time to arrive with a head full of dreams. Well, Endurance Proudfoot did not. When she stepped off the coach from Sussex, on a warm and sticky afternoon in the summer of 1757, it never occurred to her that the city would be the place where she’d make her fortune; she was just very annoyed to be arriving there at all.
 
Meet Endurance Proudfoot: clumsy as a carthorse, strong as an ox, with a tactless tongue and a face she’s sure only a mother could love. Durie wants one thing in life: to become a bonesetter like her father. It’s physically demanding work, requiring nerves of steel, and he’s adamant it’s not a job for a woman.

Strong-willed and stubborn, Durie’s certain that in bonesetting, her big, usually clumsy hands have found their natural calling. So when she’s bundled off to London with her beautiful sister, she won’t let it stop her realising her dream. As her sister finds fame on the stage, Durie becomes England’s most celebrated bonesetter – but what goes up must come down, and her success may become her undoing.

Inspired by the true stories of two of Georgian England’s most famous celebrities, That Bonesetter Woman is an uplifting tale about finding the courage to go your own way, when everyone says you can’t – and about realising that what makes you different can also make you strong.