The plot thickens
This month’s reads will transport you from love in Sixties London to a teeming Norfolk garden, via the idyllic Cotswolds, but it’s not all hearts and flowers
by ROS E SHEPHERD
our pick
PIECE OF MY HEART
Penelope Tree Ah, the glamorous world of high fashion! Drug and alcohol abuse, sexual exploitation, endless pressure to be thin… From a posh Oxfordshire home, via boarding school, to world travel, Vogue photo shoots and love with mercurial photographer Ramsey, Ari seems to have it all. But Tree’s flawed heroine is an insecure soul in a relationship so emotionally abusive, with a lover so faithless, you want to scream, ‘Get out now!’ They say if you can remember the Sixties you weren’t really there, but former supermodel and David Bailey’s muse Tree was certainly there, on the scene, and she remembers. Join her on a whirlwind trip back in time to Swinging London, reliving those delirious days before the dream turned sour.