BOOKS
Leading roles
A lovelorn vicar, the boy wonder of Georgian theatre, a wife with an obsession, and two guys on a mission all take centre stage in Rose Shepherd's book picks
THINK OF ME (i)
Frances Liardet
A consummate storyteller,
Liardet follows up her intensely sad, sweet second novel, We Must Be Brave (read it first -you must!), with a sequel o f sorts, a love story that moves between wartime Alexandria and 1970s England. James Acton, a vicar and former fighter pilot, is still grieving the death of his sparky Egyptian wife, daredevil driver Yvette, when he moves to a new parish. Theirs was a marriage forged in havoc, made in heaven. But both James and Yvette had secrets, and, even as he dares to give his heart again, the house could just come tumbling around his ears. Moving, eloquent, elegant.