World Book Day

The Biscuit team are all avid readers so what better day than World Book Day to share what we are all reading with you... 

Emilia - Tara Westover's "Educated" is an amazing book about a girl growing up with a radical Mormon family. She leaves home at 16 discovers the power of education. 

Jill - "Motherless Daughters" is an insight into how to deal with the loss of your Mum based on Edelmans true story. The author interviews hundreds in the same situation and I've found it can offer comfort and understanding if this has happened to you.  

Sarah - I read Bernadine Evaristo's Booker Prize winning novel "Girl, Woman, Other" last year and immediately wanted to read everything else she had written. "Mr Loverman" is the first book in her back catalogue that I've read. Like "Girl, Woman, Other" it is a vivid and lyrical masterclass in storytelling. Compelling, heart breaking and hilarious at times I think her writing is exceptional. Her characters are utterly brilliant and the protagonist Mr Loverman, Barrington Jedidiah Walker, is still walking around my head months later. Cannot recommend enough.  

Amanda - My son put this book into the "charity" pile and I gasped! I am so glad I saved it as I am now re-reading it with so much enjoyment. A classic and so on point with the current Black Lives Matter movement. 

Lucy - "The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox" by Maggie O'Farell is set in Edinburgh and focuses on a woman coming out of a psychiatric ward sixty years after she was committed. It's beautifully written and addresses some of the oppression women faced in the 1930s. 

Marie - I've been teased for many years about my acute sense of smell, and as a result this book struck a cord with me. Patrick Suskind's book "Perfume" is set in the slums of France and is a terrifying story of someone with an extraordinary gift of smell who becomes obsessed with capturing the ultimate scent.  

Sharing these books on World Book Day on our Biscuit team WhatsApp sparked conversation and shared love for these book. So although we can't all be together at work just yet it was a lovely way to bring us together virtually.