new: The Words I Never Wrote
Jan 2020 Release – Amazon Link BOOK DESCRIPTION New York, present day: On a whim, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its...
View Articlenew: The Girl with the Golden Scissors
Jan 2020 Release – Amazon Link BOOK DESCRIPTION Christmas 1889. A baby is born in the early hours at Vienna General Hospital, only to be abandoned by her unwed mother and entrusted to a foundling home...
View Articlenew: The Poppy Field
Jan 2020 Release – Amazon Link BOOK DESCRIPTION Young nurse, Gemma, is struggling with the traumas she has witnessed through her job. Needing to escape from it all, Gemma agrees to help renovate a...
View Articlenew: A Life of Secrets
Jan 2020 Release (Kindle) – Amazon Link – HC Mar 2020 BOOK DESCRIPTION Deploring social injustice, Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency, concealing the fact that she’s a member of the...
View Articlenew: Cartier’s Hope
Jan 2020 Release – Amazon Link BOOK DESCRIPTION New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where...
View Articlenew: The Chocolatier
Jan 2020 Release – Amazon Link BOOK DESCRIPTION A young widow. A husband she thought she knew. On the picturesque Italian coast of Amalfi lies a chocolatier’s destiny… San Francisco, 1953: Heartbroken...
View Articlenew: The Plum Tree
Jan 2020 Release – Amazon Link BOOK DESCRIPTION A deeply moving and masterfully written story of human resilience and enduring love, The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of...
View Articlenew: The Guest Book
Jan 2020 Release – Amazon Link BOOK DESCRIPTION The Miltons are a powerful old New York family – the kind of family that used to run the world. And in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton seem...
View Articlereview: The Only Woman in the Room
Today being Hedy Lamarr’s birthday, it seems an appropriate time to publish this review! The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict was the pick for my book club last month and I found it a quick and...
View Articlereview: The Night the Lights Went Out
The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White This is another book club read, and I was pleasantly surprised to find it included sections that are historical–Great Depression and WWII era. The main...
View Articlereview: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca has been on the to-read list for ages, and thanks to Book Club, it has been marked off (and was much enjoyed)! First, a short and spoiler-free synopsis: Late 1930’s. An unnamed protagonist...
View Articlereview: The Education of Little Tree
Set during the Great Depression, this story covers a variety of experiences a Native American family faced living on the fringes of an Appalachian community. The narrator is Little Tree, a...
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