Roman Summer - The Flamboyant Tree - Black Niall cover

Roman Summer - The Flamboyant Tree - Black Niall

by Jane, Isobel Chace, Mary Wibberley Arbor

Roman Summer by Jane Arbor Teaching an attractive teenager to love Rome didn't seem a particularly arduous job. — But for Ruth it meant having to fight her old attraction to Erie Nash, who had said, "The folly of marriage is a heady, distracting adventure I don't mean to afford". The Flamboyant Tree by Isobel Chace Frances Whitney had read an article about the self-help villages of Tanzania, where the population worked together in a kind of co-operative for their mutual benefit, and before anyone could stop her she had volunteered to go to one of these villages as a doctor. At Nguyu they had been expecting a male doctor. "You won't last ten minutes," Simon Abbott told her. She would show him! Black Niall by Mary Wibberley Everything was going wrong for Alison. Her job was in jeopardy, and she was going to have to sell her beloved family home to a stranger. As if that wasn't enough, Niall MacBain had come home; Niall, her arch-enemy, whom she had not seen for nine years but for whom she still felt nothing but hatred.

Chappie’s discussion starters

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?