My Life in Books
Caroline Montague’s new book ‘The Pieces of Us’ is out now
Caroline Montague has written five novels, and a children’s book for the charity Elephants Alive. She lives with her husband at Burnt Norton House in the Cotswolds, made famous by TS Eliot in Four Quartets. She’s mother to seven children and stepchildren and divides her time between England and Italy. Orion has just published her new book The Pieces of Us.
The books on your bedside table? There’s a growing mountain of books on my bedside table. Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem: a terrifyingly beautiful elegy in poetic form about the suffering of the Russian population under Stalin’s Great Purge. TS Eliot’s Four Quartets. Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido, a glorious book about a young woman plunged into the eccentric Goldman family. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, a masterful novel that will make you laugh and cry. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez has finally reached the top of the pile.