Organiser Girl

ISBN: 9780732282066;
ISBN-10: 0732282063;
Publication Date: 22/02/2006;

How well do you really know the one you love? Skye Rogers believed she’d met the man of her dreams. Daniel was tall, dark and handsome, a sometimes aloof artist who turned out to be a kindred spirit and, it seemed, her soul mate.

Slowly, Skye fell deeply in love. Even more slowly, she realised that Dan was an alcoholic. Over the course of years, as Skye battled to understand the demons that haunted her beloved — and herself — she realised that she had to choose between life and self-destruction — a whole new and strange world for her.

Drink Me is the moving story of the great love — and fight — of one woman’s life. It is about patterns and why we choose them; love and why we seek it; life and what we do with it. Lyrically written and many-layered, Drink Me is a book everyone who has ever loved should read.

[text from the HarperCollins website]

I picked up this book last week at the library, it was the cover that caught my eye initially, and then the blurb. How could I possibly resist these words:

You don’t fall in love with an alcoholic - you fall in love with a man.

Read into that what you will… I’ll let you know what I thought when I’ve finished the book.

ISBN 0755332229 (978-075-533222-9)

RRP $32.95 September 2006

Headline Paperback C (234×153mm)A significant departure for Maggie O’Farrell in terms of maturity and style, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox will be one of the unmissable publishing events of 2006. Ladies and gentlemen behold. It is most important to keep yourself very still. Even breathing can remind them that you are there, so only very short, very shallow breaths. Just enough to stay alive. Set between the 1930s, and the present, Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family’s history, and of the secrets that come to light when, sixty years later, she is released from care, and a young woman, Iris, discovers the great aunt she never knew she had. The mystery that unfolds is the heartbreaking tale of two sisters in colonial India and 1930s Edinburgh—of the loneliness that binds them together and the rivalries that drive them apart, and lead one of them to a shocking betrayal.

I borrowed this book from the library because I have read all of Maggie O’Farrell’s other novels and I’ve loved every single one of them. This book lived up to my expectations of Maggie’s writing. The characters were believable, the plot drew me in. There were surprises around every corner. I found this book hard to put down.