Snowdrops, a poison tree & Richard III

The snowdrops are out! There are just a few stragglers outside our kitchen window nowadays, but even one solitary snowdrop would fill me with the hope of the coming spring. My husband says there are quite a lot at the bottom of the garden in the corner but I haven’t been well enough to get down there yet. I will have to be quick as they have forcast more snow at the weekend.

I have been reading a really good book called ‘The Poison Tree’ by Erin Kelly. It starts in the present day with a woman and her daughter meeting her partner out of prison. He has served a 10 year sentence. Then it tells in flashback what took him there. The flashback part is set in a very hot summer in London in a rather spooky house by a wood. It’s full of atmosphere and is a fantastic book. I couldn’t believe it’s actually the author’s debut novel.

I’m really excited about the finding of the body of Richard III in a Leicester car park. I have been fascinated by him since reading Josephine Tey’s a Daughter of Time’. I have read a lot of books about him and went on a short course at our local college. I don’t believe he killed the princes in the tower. He was an intelligent man. If he had wanted to kill someone he would have done it in a way that didn’t throw suspicion on him. I think he was framed!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882