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Sleepless Night
Sleepless Night | Margriet de Moor
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A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a Bundt cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it's time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have read a story of romance and death. The narrator of this novel was widowed years ago and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident still holds her in its grasp. Why did he do it? Margriet de Moor, the grande dame of Dutch literature, tells a gripping love story about endings and demise, rage and jealousy, knowledge and ambiguity -- and the possibility of new beginnings.
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KarenUK
Sleepless Night | Margriet de Moor
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Gorgeous, melancholic writing translated from the Dutch, a single sleepless night, circling memories of a young widow‘s past, and a day spent in the company of a new man. Heartbreaking, beautifully observed, and at moments hopeful… with ambiguity in the most truthful way. #pop22 #blurbbyafavoriteauthor Blurbed by Claire Fuller and discovered on her Goodreads feed, always a great source of lovely writing….. and I do love a novel set in one day…💕

squirrelbrain Ooh, good pick for the prompt! 2y
Cinfhen Sounds great and very much like a Karen book ♥️ 2y
BarbaraBB How nice! I always like when someone discovers a Dutch author! 2y
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Megabooks Sounds wonderful! 2y
KarenUK @Cinfhen A very Karen read! 😊 2y
KarenUK I loved her writing so much! Have you read her? @BarbaraBB 2y
KarenUK @megabooks @squirrelbrain It was really unexpected. So good! 2y
BarbaraBB Yes I did. I can recommend this one 2y
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KarenUK
Sleepless Night | Margriet de Moor
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#Mountains #WanderingJune
Does a #TBRmountain on your nightstand count?!?!😂📚📚📚📚

Tex2Flo Intrigued by Animals Strike Unusual Poses. 5y
KarenUK @Tex2flo heard about it on a British podcast.... sounds fascinating, odd and wonderful! 💕 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/books-and-authors/id331296649?i=1000433525... (edited) 5y
BarbaraBB I would have sleepness nights just by having that stack beside me, calling out to me 🤩. Two Elaine Dundy! 5y
Cinfhen I‘m loving that mountain of wonderfulness!!!!!! 5y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
Sleepless Night | Margriet de Moor
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Panpan

Not that great for me. 😏

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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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So happy the weather guys were wrong!! They said it was going to be a crap long weekend and it's not! It's beautiful outside and I'm thrilled to be able to get patio reading done!!

Melissa_J It‘s not very nice here 😢 It‘s not very warm and it‘s overcast. Tomorrow we are expecting a lot of rain ☔️ 5y
AmyG We had snow, rain, sleet, hail and sun...all today. 😳 5y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @Melissa_J I think tomorrow we're supposed to have thunderstorms. 🙁 I'm happy to have at least one day out here! 5y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders @AmyG oh no!! 🤪🤪 5y
AmyG Oh please... now it‘s snowing. Life in the Rocky Mountains. I envy you reading outside! (edited) 5y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @AmyG 😲😲 that's crazy!! 5y
JSW It‘s pouring here. 5y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @JSW that's what it's supposed to do tomorrow and what it was doing early this morning. 😩 5y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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This is a novella I should be able to complete today. It will also get me back on the #ReadingWomen challenge wagon!