The Wanderers

High praise indeed from me for the second book in Pears’s West Country Trilogy. It is a novel of stark contrasts as the story alternates between Leo and Charlotte in the years between 1912 and 1915. At 13 Leo is headed alone towards his mother’s birthplace, Penzance (without giving any spoilers from......more

The Wanderers by Tim Pears is rather an interesting book. The title suits the story perfectly and you yourself feel that you have become a part of the book. When you start with the book, all the scenes start scrolling like a movie in front of your eyes. The entire scenic beauty has been described ve......more

Not as gobsmacking as the first in the trilogy but suddenly leaps into its own in the last 30 pages or so or maybe that's because I read them when I was awake. The bits about the posh girl Lottie aren't nearly as gripping but I'm fond of the boy and can happily wander along with him wherever he goes......more

The Wanderers is the second book in Tim Pears trilogy depicting life in the early 1900s countryside of Devon and the West Country. This book follows the cast out son of the country estates horse handler. As he makes a journey across the country to his mother's people, he falls in with gypsies , a tr......more