1920s Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/1920s/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:32:32 +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 1920s Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/1920s/ 32 32 38398750 Daughter of Egypt https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:23:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19537 Two young women, separated by thousands of years, stand at the center of Marie Benedict’s new novel, Daughter of Egypt. One is the daughter of a wealthy English lord in post-WWI England while the other is a pharaoh’s daughter in ancient Egypt. Only one has a life predestined by the gods, but both will have […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/feed/ 0 19537 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/shrines-of-gaiety-by-kate-atkinson/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/shrines-of-gaiety-by-kate-atkinson/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:26:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18473 I’m happy to start the week with a novel, Shrines of Gaiety, that left me thoroughly entertained. Nellie Coker is an iron-fisted matriarch running nightclubs in 1920s London and trying to groom at least some of her children to take over. After a short stint in prison, she returns home to find the vultures circling […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/shrines-of-gaiety-by-kate-atkinson/feed/ 0 18473 A Fever in the Heartland https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/08/a-fever-in-the-heartland/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/08/a-fever-in-the-heartland/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:15:03 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17774 I had little idea what to expect when I picked up Timothy Egan’s new book, A Fever in the Heartland. I knew it was about the Ku Klux Klan, but its subtitle seemed a bit dramatic: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. It actually proved to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/08/a-fever-in-the-heartland/feed/ 10 17774 Siren Queen: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/siren-queen-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/siren-queen-a-novel/#comments Wed, 25 May 2022 04:19:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16728 After the penetrating reality of displacement in An Unlasting Home I opted to change reading direction and dive into fantasy. My choice, Siren Queen, led me deep into a 1920s Hollywood that was at once recognizable, but darkly surreal. A world one young American Chinese woman is desperate to be a part of, but only on […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/siren-queen-a-novel/feed/ 2 16728 The Christie Affair: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/02/the-christie-affair-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/02/the-christie-affair-a-novel/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:39:32 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16498 When Agatha’s husband informs her that he’s leaving her for another woman she doesn’t react well. In fact, she disappears. For eleven days, leaving their young daughter behind. This situation is both fact and the premise of Nina de Gramont’s novel The Christie Affair. Because yes, Agatha, is that Agatha and in 1925, when her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/02/the-christie-affair-a-novel/feed/ 6 16498 The Chosen and the Beautiful https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/the-chosen-and-the-beautiful/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/the-chosen-and-the-beautiful/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:30:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16333 Wouldn’t you know it—as soon as I post my overlooked books of 2021 another slips in under the wire. I finished The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Wednesday morning after my post went live. This marvelous novel is a retelling of The Great Gatsby but from the perspective of Jordan Baker, seen in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/the-chosen-and-the-beautiful/feed/ 4 16333 Wealthy Women: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/wealthy-women-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/wealthy-women-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 06 May 2016 07:27:29 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6332   It’s no secret I like sorbet reading—the kind of fiction that is light on the brain and cleanses my mental palate for the heavier novels that linger in my heart and mind after I’ve finished them. This could also be called chick-lit, but while I think that’s a fun term I know there are […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/wealthy-women-mini-reviews/feed/ 3 6332 The Jazz Palace https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/the-jazz-palace/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/the-jazz-palace/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:05:07 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3954   The Jazz Palace begins with a tragedy, the sinking of the SS Eastland while it was still tied to the dock in the Chicago River. The boat was full of workers for a local company headed out for a day of picnicking when the top heavy ship rolled over on it’s side trapping and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/the-jazz-palace/feed/ 4 3954 The Other Typist https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/other-typist/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/other-typist/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:58:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3476   Suzanne Rindell sets her novel The Other Typist in 1920s New York City where Rose is one of a new kind of working woman, earning her living as a typist for the police department. She is an orphan living a quiet simple life despite working in a job that exposes her to some of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/other-typist/feed/ 9 3476 Fallen Beauty https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/03/fallen-beauty/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/03/fallen-beauty/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:56:23 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2611   Fallen Beauty is the story of a lovely young woman, Laura Kelley, who pays the price for one night of passion by becoming pregnant. It’s 1928 in upstate New York and her decision to keep her child, despite the father’s unwillingness to acknowledge her, changes the course of her life. Both her parents are […]

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