On My Wish List is a fun weekly event hosted by Workaday Reads and runs every Saturday. It's where we list all the books we desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.
Title: The Girl Below
Author: Bianca Zander
Publication Date: June 19, 2012
Synopsis:
Suki Piper is a stranger in her hometown. . . .
After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won't let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy—an old family friend who still lives in the building where she grew up—convinces Suki that there is a way to reconnect with the life she left behind a decade earlier. But the more involved she becomes with Peggy's dysfunctional family, including Peggy's wayward sixteen-year-old grandson, the more Suki finds herself mysteriously slipping back in time—to the night of a party her parents threw in their garden more than twenty years ago, when something happened in an old, long-unused air-raid shelter. . . .
After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won't let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy—an old family friend who still lives in the building where she grew up—convinces Suki that there is a way to reconnect with the life she left behind a decade earlier. But the more involved she becomes with Peggy's dysfunctional family, including Peggy's wayward sixteen-year-old grandson, the more Suki finds herself mysteriously slipping back in time—to the night of a party her parents threw in their garden more than twenty years ago, when something happened in an old, long-unused air-raid shelter. . . .
First, I love this cover. I love the colors, the bars, the girl, everything. This is the kind of cover that screams at me to pick it up. I'm also quite a fan of family secrets. No, not in real life of course, but in stories. These are the stories that I keep going back to time and again. I'm curious to see just what did happen in the air-raid shelter and who it happened to. Why have I not picked up this book yet? Do I see an end to my book buying ban in the near future? I think I might. Shhh, don't tell the husband!
What about you? What are you looking to get your hands on? Leave me a link so I can come check it out. There's always more room on my wish list :)
I love the cover too! This sounds like a good mystery. Uncovering family secrets is always fun! In a book only!
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