Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along; you don't have to be a blogger! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
The teaser this week is for a classic which comes highly recommended by my fellow reading friends!
My teaser this week:
She pulled Cecilia to her and they cried together. She took her to a private doctor in Exeter who wouldn't talk to neighbors, but it was, as she strongly suspected too late: otherwise, she knew with a sense of steel entering her blood that she would have marched her off for an abortion and paid for it without telling Patrick, who would have strenuously objected on lapsed religious grounds.
- page 179 (ARC), You by Joanna Bricoe (The Book Depository / Amazon)
Goodreads description:
Dora Bannan hopes for a new life when she moves her husband and their three children to the wild moorland. She finds a job teaching music at a progressive school, where she also enrolls the children- their fellow students the progeny of back-to-the-land bohemians. But when the school's elegant art teacher, Elisabeth Dahl, offers Dora a seductive alternative to her domestic routine, Dora finds that real change is far from easy. Meanwhile, her precocious only daughter, Cecilia, longs for a more traditional life, especially the formal education her new school can't offer. Cecilia becomes obsessed with her English teacher, James Dahl-an errant representative of the establishment she craves, and husband of the dangerous Elisabeth.
Twenty years later, the adult Cecilia brings her partner and daughters back home to the moors and her aging mother. Moving between past and present, You slowly reveals how far Dora and Cecilia once let their private, impossible desires lead them-and how much further the consequences extend. Sensual, unnerving, and gripping, You is a novel about the lives we think we want, the choices we can't unmake, and the loves and losses we never forget.
I thought I would be to this one by now, but it looks as though I will start it tomorrow. :)
Feel free to leave your teaser or link to it in the comments section; I find that I always end up adding to my to-buy list when I visit!
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