If you’ve read the Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice or seen the movie you know that Lydia Bennet was one of the most annoying little sisters in the fictional world, nearly bringing down her family’s reputation with her foolish behavior and hasty decisions. But what if there was more to her than that? Melinda Taub answers that question in The Scandalous Confessions of ... Read More...
The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
More devious, delicious, escape reading! The Sequel is just that, the sequel to Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel The Plot. Anna Williams-Bonner is the widow of critically acclaimed author Jacob Bonner. Only she’s not happy about her husband’s success as his novel cuts a bit too close to her own life. She’s aggrieved by this as she is by most things. Her most fervent wish is to be ... Read More...
The Best Lies by David Ellis
A crusading lawyer, a former cop, and an FBI agent looking to make his mark all come together like gasoline and a match in David Ellis’ new novel, The Best Lies. Leo is a lawyer working to bring a sex trafficker to justice, but his case falls apart when his client, who’d been enslaved as a prostitute and had a child sold off, is murdered. Days later the trafficker is found ... Read More...
I Hope This Finds You Well
Apparently, the reading gods have taken pity on me this fall because I’m on a roll with FUN, entertaining, reading. Case in point: I Hope This Finds You Well, a debut from Canadian author Natalie Sue. This novel’s main ingredient is humor, but she blends it into something with more depth as one introverted office worker has to attend HR training to improve her attitude or lose ... Read More...
A Wild and Heavenly Place
A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira begins in 1870s Glasgow where orphaned, teenage Samuel, is living hand-to-mouth working in a shipyard and taking care of his little sister. He’s in love with Hailey, a wealthy girl he admires from afar. Until circumstances throw them together and they begin to fall in love, only to be pulled apart and separated by half a ... Read More...
The Switch by Beth O’Leary
When Leena and her grandmother Eileen both find themselves in desperate need of a change they come to an unusual decision in Beth O’Leary’s The Switch. Each move into the others’ home. For Leena this means leaving her London flat and two roommates and heading to a cottage an hour away. For Eileen, it’s leaving behind the quiet and peace of her tiny village and entering London’s ... Read More...
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