Honeysuckle Weeks's six best books

Honeysuckle Weeks is best known for playing Samantha Stewart in eight series of ITV's Foyle's War.

One of her six favorite books, as told to the Daily Express:

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is a favourite because of the way it conjures up the American Dream and how it shatters. I feel sorry for Gatsby from the word go. I love American literature and Fitzgerald is brilliant.

Read about another book on Weeks's list.

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--Marshal Zeringue