Allison Larkin Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/allison-larkin/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:04:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Allison Larkin Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/allison-larkin/ 32 32 38398750 Home of the American Circus https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/home-of-the-american-circus/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/home-of-the-american-circus/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:18:22 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19274 Home of the American Circus begins with Freya’s rent being overdue and her appendix bursting. These two events give her no choice but to leave Maine where she lives and head back to her hometown in New York. And not just the town, but her childhood home which was left to her by her parents. Once […]

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