The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
None of the biblical tales I’ve read delve much into what Mary thought of her son’s ascension from child of a virgin birth to son of God, but in Colm Toíbín’s The Testament…
None of the biblical tales I’ve read delve much into what Mary thought of her son’s ascension from child of a virgin birth to son of God, but in Colm Toíbín’s The Testament…
Enid Shomer’s Twelve Rooms of the Nile examines the private lives and thoughts of Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert as they travel up the Nile River through Egypt in1850. The novel begins before…
Bring Up The Bodies is Hilary Mantel’s second book in a trilogy detailing the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell. In spite of its daunting reputation I loved the first in the series,…
Cora Carlisle is thirty-six in 1922, the summer that she chaperones a teenaged Louise Brooks throughout the duration of a prestigious summer dance program in New York, in Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone. When we…
The Crime of Julian Wells by Thomas H. Cook, Julian Wells rows himself to the middle of the pond on his family’s estate and carefully slits both his wrists. He has looked over…
Bonnie Nadzam’s Lamb follows the life of David Lamb in the aftermath of the death of his distant father and the dissolution of his marriage after he has an affair with a much younger co-worker.…