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The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

June 11, 2025

eudora

I’m moving away from terror today with The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett. Eudora is 85 years old, has never married, and lives quietly in her London rowhouse. She’s in reasonable health, but is ... Read More...

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Is She Really Going Out With Him?

April 17, 2025

really going

Because we’re all still recovering from any number of financial upheavals, be it taxes or the stock market I’m sticking with easy reading that pays off. Is She Really Going Out With Him? has a very ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: England, rom-com, vacation reading

The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts

April 7, 2025

wildes

Coming from a family where wit (largely sarcasm, but still) is a love language I’ve always been intrigued by Oscar Wilde. I’ve read his works, seen movie adaptations of his plays, and even read about ... Read More...

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

February 7, 2025

behind the scenes

Ruby Lennox has no intention of waiting to be noticed. She is the front and center, the axis in the familial wheel that is Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum. The novel begins with her ... Read More...

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Instructions for a Heatwave

January 16, 2025

instructions

In 1976 England was in the midst of a terrible drought and heat wave. It’s an inauspicious and unexpected time for a happily married, retired man to go missing, but Robert does, taking only his keys ... Read More...

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