Book Picks

Adult Book:

The Glass Lake -By Maeve Binchy
1994

Reading a book by Maeve Binchy is like having a long chat with an old friend. Her characters are warm and real and you find yourself reading long past your bedtime to find out what they are up to.

The Glass Lake is Binchy at her best. When Helen MacMahon leaves her husband and children in small-town Ireland to start a new life in London, she is mistakenly presumed drowned in the local lake. Years later, a mysterious woman named Lena Gray writes to Kit MacMahon claiming to be a school chum of her mother's. Will Kit learn the real identity of her correspondent? Will Helen be reunited with her daughter? A riveting read.

Children's Book:

Matilda -By Roald Dahl
1988

"Matilda longed for her parents to be good and loving and understanding and honourable and intelligent. The fact that they were none of these things was something she had to put up with."

Matilda is a silly but uplifting story giving a child's perspective on an adult world. Children will cheer as Matilda, a genius with idiot parents and a tyrannical principal, learns that small people can be powerful too. This book is witty and outrageous and kids will love it.