Recommendation 4 Oct

Final recommendation before the holidays! Book is in storage for now, but you can read it online on Borrow Box  from North Ayrshire Libraries. For more information see their website.

Recommended this week is When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle. A story set in 1940, and Joseph has been packed off to stay with Mrs F, a gruff woman with no great fondness for children. To Joseph’s amazement, she owns the rundown city zoo where Joseph meets Adonis, a huge silverback gorilla. Adonis is ferociously strong and dangerous, but Joseph finds he has an affinity with the lonely beast. But when the bombs begin to fall, it is up to Joseph to guard Adonis’s cage should it be damaged by a blast. Will Joseph be ready to pull the trigger if it comes to it?

A tense story about the power of kindness and hope set against the second world war.