Relaxing
Book club
Our pick of the best reads around Who Did You Tell? by Lesley Kara (£12.99, HB, Transworld) Following on from her bestselling crime debut thriller The Rumour comes the twisty new novel we’ve been waiting for from Lesley Kara. Recovering alcoholic Astrid is trying to turn her life around, regularly attending AA meetings in a quiet seaside town. Only Astrid has a past that’s not so easily forgotten. Someone knows exactly what she is running from, and they won’t stop until they get their revenge. Lesley Kara deals sensitively with the complicated issue of alcohol abuse in this gripping mystery.
Book of the week
The Telephone Box Library by Rachael Lucas (£7.99, PB, Pan Macmillan) Who wouldn’t want to escape to the picturesque Cotswolds? Lucy certainly does. Taking a sabbatical from her job as a history teacher, she moves to a tiny cottage to relax, but it seems the local villagers have other ideas. A transporting and heartfelt story with some truly memorable characters.
Mr Nobody
The Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Event
by Catherine Steadman (£12.99, HB, Simon & Schuster) When a man washes up on a Norfolk beach with no memory of who he is or how he got there, it’s up to neuropsychiatrist Dr Emma Lewis to find out. This could be the pivotal case of her career – but is that what she wants? Perfectly paced with an exciting race to the end, this is one clever novel.
Celebrating all things East Anglian, the annual Norfolk and Norwich Festival returns this spring, and has already announced some of the first shows and events ahead of the full programme launch in February. This year will feature live art displays, circus acts, a play and concerts from the Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra and, for the first time, will also run two stages in Chapelfield Gardens. The festival returns from 8-24 May and for your chance to book your tickets now, visit nnfestival.org.uk Woman’s Weekly
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