Six degrees of Separation January 2023

First Friday of the month, so time for #6degrees of separation, hosted by Kate over at Books are my favourite and best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six others to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the titles on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain.

Beach read by Emily Henry is the starter book this month. I haven’t read it, but naturally the beach makes think of summer. One of my favourite books from last year contained scenes set in an idyllic English summer in the 1970’s, which was….

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‘Bad relations’ by Cressida Connolly, a multi generational book that starts in the Crimea war, takes in Cornwall in the seventies, and present day England and Australia. Whilst we’re on the subject of multi-generational books……

Isabel Allendes ‘A long petal of the sea’ was very much in the same category. Starting during the Spanish civil war, it moves through the generations before ending in Chile and Venezuela. The refugees in this book were fleeing the Spanish civil war and retribution from Franco, whilst in……

…’these days’ by Lucy Caldwell we found child refugees seeking sanctuary outside Belfast during the Blitz. One of the daughters, Audrey, is engaged to a young doctor. Doctors and engagements also feature in…….

‘The daughter of doctor Moreau’ by Silvia Moreno Garcia. From much loved daughters in deepest Mexico, to….

three generations of women and their daughters in rural Tipperary, in Donal Ryans ‘The queen of dirt island’. The link between the next book is that they’re both set in rural island, but also that the author writes their characters with such empathy, and that book is….

‘Snowflake’ by Louise Nealon, a debut I greatly enjoyed from a few years back.

That’s it for another month. All the way from the beach to snowflakes. Anyone else do it this time around? Let me know below!