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Skylark by Paula McClain

Catherine — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:59:42 +0000

A young woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum in the 1600s. A psychiatric medical student in Paris in the 1940s is faced with the realities of the Nazi invasion. These two unrelated characters sit at the center of Paula McLain’s latest novel, Skylark, because both are forced to venture into the darkest parts of […]

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When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

Catherine — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 04:35:51 +0000

Paula McLain is well-known for her historical fiction about women. This month she flips the script on her readers with When the Stars Go Dark, a complex mystery set in 1990s Northern California. There, Anna Hart is a missing persons detective who needs time off after a devastating personal loss. She heads to Mendocino to […]

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Love and Ruin by Paula McLain

Catherine — Mon, 07 May 2018 07:15:32 +0000

It wasn’t bravery when you did what you had to do. Paula McLain’s novel, Circling the Sun, was one of my favorites of 2015, largely because she portrayed Beryl Markham so well as a woman who wasn’t content to follow the norms of her times—get married, have children—but who understood that the only way […]

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Circling the Sun: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 07:24:55 +0000

I have a chart that traces my route over the Atlantic, Abingdon to New York, every inch of icy water I’ll pass over, but not the emptiness involved or the loneliness, or the fear. Those things are as real as anything else, though, and I’ll have to fly through them. Straight through the sickening dips […]

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