Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres, and I especially enjoy stories that include real people and events. In her debut novel, Fairer than Morning, Rossslyn Elliott shares the story of the Hanby family, real people remain the most celebrated citizens of Westerville, Ohio. Will Hanby was an indentured servant who was badly abused…
Category Archives: Historical
Next to Love
Spanning 1944 – 1964, Next to Love: A Novel takes a look at the lives of 3 women in a small town in Massachusetts, friends since Kindergarten, and bound together and pulled apart by a war that changed them all. If you enjoyed The Help (linked to my review, check it out!), I encourage you…
The Last Letter from Your Lover
The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes is a novel that I was able to savor while I was on vacation. When I had a spare moment, I picked it up, and whether I had time to read 5 pages or 40, I was so excited to see what was going to happen…
Rules of Civility
The 1930′s and ’40′s fascinate me. Between the hard times of the Depression to war to the beginnings of changing roles of society, there are so many interesting circumstances, which make for a lovely literary backdrop. Rules of Civility: A Novel by Amor Towles covers one year — 1938 — in the life of some…
Leaving Van Gogh
Leaving Van Gogh was a fantastic book. Carol Wallace transports the reader to the time of the Impressionists in France and she becomes the character who tells the story, Dr. Gachet, which caused me to become even more engrossed in the story (and so I had to keep reminding myself that this wasn’t history but…
The American Heiress
Set in 1893 in the high society world of Newport, Rhode Island, the novel The American Heiress paints a vivid picture of that life of wealth and privilege, looking specifically at the young American heiress Cora Cash. Like many young women, she spends some time in England, where her mother hopes that she’ll land a…
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Claire Harris Stone is a socialite with a very rich husband, living a life of diamonds and furs in Manhattan, when her past rises up to meet her. The daughter of an Oklahoma dirt farmer, she fled the farm and stole a name and pedigree from an obituary. She’s learned how to use her face…
The Long Song
On occasion I read books that I feel wholly unqualified to review – I don’t have an English degree, I’m not a teacher or a librarian, I just love books. The Long Song by Andrea Levy, a 2010 Man Booker Prize finalist now out in paperback, falls into this category. The Long Song opens with…
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