Marie-Helene Bertino Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/marie-helene-bertino/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:45:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Marie-Helene Bertino Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/marie-helene-bertino/ 32 32 38398750 Parakeet: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/parakeet-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/parakeet-a-novel/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2020 04:52:36 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14449 It’s the week before her wedding when the Bride sees her grandmother. Not unusual except her grandmother has been dead for over ten years and what she sees is a parakeet who talks to her. Grandma parakeet is worried about the impending wedding, but more importantly she wants the Bride to find her older brother, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/parakeet-a-novel/feed/ 2 14449 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/2a-m-cats-pajamas/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/2a-m-cats-pajamas/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2014 08:54:22 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3575   Author Marie-Helene Bertino creates an unusual and charming story in 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas in that while it takes place in the 24 hours before Christmas Eve the only thing Christmas-like about it is that it brings together a disparate group of travelers, all looking for salvation.  There is nine-year-old Madeleine; Lorca, the owner of […]

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