SPOT THE DIFFERENCE AND THE ORANGE PRIZE NOMINEES ARE .......

How alike are these two book covers?

CASA ROSSA by Francesca Marciano.

In Casa Rossa, Roman native Francesca Marciano tells a riveting tale of three generations of women whose separate acts of betrayal set the stage for later destruction. Renée, the grandmother, forsakes her artist husband and her life in rural Puglia at Casa Rossa, to live with a woman. Alba, her daughter, takes a lover and pushes her husband to suicide. Isabella and Alina, Alba's daughters, take extreme measures to keep each other out of their lives, leading to upheaval. Told through the voice of the youngest daughter, Alina, Casa Rossa weaves the selling and closure of the family estate with the family's sordid and unforgettable history. Spanning the 20th century and providing entrée into the not-so-incompatible worlds of Italian cinema and political terrorism, Marciano, author of Rules of the Wild, reveals an authenticity in the way this emotionally warped family comes to terms with its fragmented past. It's a fine, highly entertaining work, laced with lovely writing and emotionally resonant characters - Amazon.com review.
 

THE WOMAN WHO WAITED by Andrei Makine.

A crumbling farmhouse in Puglia, Casa Rossa was bought by Alina Strada’s grandfather at a time when no one else wanted it. Now busy preparing it for sale, Alina endeavors to recover the memories it still harbors—in particular of three women whose passions indelibly shaped her family’s dark past. There’s grandmother Renee, whose love of novelty won over everything else. Alina’s mother, Alba, whose marriage to a screenwriter inspired both great art and unbearable sadness. Finally Isabella, Alina’s sister, whose fervent politics drove her to ever-escalating betrayals. Moving from Jazz Age Paris to 1950s Rome to modern-day New York, but returning always to the uncompromising beauty of Italy’s south, Casa Rossa is a spellbinding story of how loves and losses, secrets and lies, resonate across the generations. - RandomHouse reviews.

And talking of books, in case you didn't already heard here is a list of the books nominated for this years Orange Prize for Fiction.

•Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) - Sudanese; 3rd Novel


•Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch (Canongate) - British; 10th Novel

•Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador) - Irish; 7th Novel (SEE MY REVIEW)

•The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi (Bloomsbury) - Indian; 1st Novel

•Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty (Faber and Faber) - British; 6th Novel

•A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Corsair) - American; 4th Novel

•The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury) - British/Sierra Leonean; 3rd Novel

•The London Train by Tessa Hadley (Jonathan Cape) - British; 4th Novel

•Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson (Sceptre) - British; 1st Novel

•The Seas by Samantha Hunt (Corsair) - American; 1st Novel

•The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (Faber and Faber) - British; 2nd Novel

•Great House by Nicole Krauss (Viking) - American; 3rd Novel

•The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone (Chatto & Windus) - American; 3rd Novel

•The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) - Serbian/American; 1st Novel (Win a copy courtesy of BIBLIOPHILE BY THE SEA by clcking HERE)

•The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (Viking) - American; 1st Novel

•Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile (Serpent's Tail) - British; 1st Novel

•Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (Chatto & Windus) - American; 1st Novel

•The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Serpent's Tail) - British/Nigerian; 1st Novel

•The Swimmer by Roma Tearne (Harper Press) - British; 4th Novel

•Annabel by Kathleen Winter (Jonathan Cape) - Canadian; 1st Novel

Have you read any and if so would you recommend it?