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After we have read the books can we register them on bookcrossing and then give them to someone else?

If anyone would like to read the first few pages to get a feel for the book, you can view them here http://cdn.genesreunited.co.uk/_Resources/uploads/TheHerbalist.PDF

Hi Persie,

From the blurb it does seem to be aimed at the ladies, so I shall ask Penguin to make sure the next book is more generic.

Do you reckon the males of GR will like this one.. all the blokes I asked about the last one were not impressed?

Persie

Hi everyone - A day late, but as promised we are now releasing the title of the second book for you to review as part of the Book Club. October's book will be The Herbalist by Niamh Boyce. If you would like to receive this book for free, all you have to do is send a message to the Book Club account (hover over our profile picture and click the 'send message' button). Contrary to our original T&C's, we will be picking people at random to receive this book from all of those who send us a message on or before Tuesday 8th October.

The Herbalist is the electrifying first novel from Niamh Boyce, winner of the 2012 Hennesssy XO Award for New Irish Writing. it is a devastating and emotional story of yearning and obsession in 1930's rural Ireland.

Out of nowhere the herbalist appears and sets up his stall in the market square. Teenager Emily is spellbound by the exotic stranger -- here is a man of the world who won't care that she's not respectable.

However, Emily has competition for the herbalist's attentions. It seems the women of her small town are all mesmerized by the visitor who, they say, can perform miracles.

When Emily discovers the miracle-worker's dark side, her world turns upside down. She may be naïve, but she has a fierce sense of right and wrong. With his fate lying in her hands, Emily must make the biggest decision of her young life. To make the herbalist pay for his sins against the women of the town? Or let him escape to cast his spell on another place?

'An elegant morality tale about the inescapable strictures of women's lives ... Her publisher describes her as "a dazzling new voice". I cannot disagree' Sunday Times