A spell-binding, evocative tale weaving myths, mysteries, and the love of sisters is an homage to books. I learned of this novel from the Great Group Reads 2023 list from the Women's National Book Association. It's my first Patti Callahan Henry novel though certainly not my last.
When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed.
In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that…
If you love a book that makes you cry happy tears, An Unfinished Story is for you. I listened to the audiobook and was captured by the story, the performance, the characters and setting – by everything!
A grieving widow and a disenchanted writer form an unexpected bond in a novel about second chances and finding the courage to let go of the past.
It's been three years since Claire Kite lost her husband, David, an aspiring novelist, in a tragic car accident. Claire finally finds the courage to move on; then she discovers among the remnants of her shattered world her husband's last manuscript. It's intimate, stirring-and unfinished. An idea comes to her...What if she can find someone to give David's novel the ending it deserves?
Whitaker Grant is famous for his one and only bestselling…
This story grabbed my heart sometimes with clutching it in pain, sometimes bursting with pleasure. This is a family saga I will long remember. There were so many sentences and phrases, metaphors and similes that made me stop to re-read and savor.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a poignant and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?
“Hello Beautiful is exactly that: beautiful, perceptive, wistful. It’s a story of family and friendship, of how the people we are bound to can also set us free. I loved it.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman…
It’s 1969. Women are fighting for equality. Rosalee, an insecure sculptor, and Fran, a best-selling novelist, have their issues. Will their bitter envy of each other and long-held secrets destroy their tenuous friendship? Or will Jill, Rosalee’s granddaughter, and the story behind her emerald necklace bind them together? A multi-generational novel of friendship and frenemies, envy, and long-held secrets that explores current issues through a historical lens. The Emerald Necklace sheds light on that inevitable time when lovers, family, friends, and circumstances change and force you to reinvent yourself whether you want to or not.
