Waiting for Sunrise

Boyd, W. (2012).Waiting for Sunrise. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

There has been snow and rain this week making a visit to the garden impossible.  Dr Anne has been spring cleaning but needs to rest between activities with cups of coffee and Easter eggs. 

Waiting for Sunrise was an ideal way to spend these restful hours.  Dr Anne read A Good Man in Africa while on a visit to Africa many years ago. She read Stars and Bars on a trip to the USA.  Greygranite loaned the Ordinary Thunderstorms in 2010.  Waiting for Sunrise didn't quite rise to the level of Ordinary Thunderstorms with its variety of ongoing scenarios but... it was a great read.  Set in Vienna, London and Geneva all places visited by Dr Anne the context was great, the storyline was captivating, an actor playing an investigator offered all sorts of disguise and intrigue, strong women  - Hettie Bull, the selfish lover, Blanche Blondel the actress and love of his life, Florence Duchesne, the secret agent, Anna Faulkner, the mother who drowned herself to preserve her son, and three men from the ministry...

The read was worth a 8/10.