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Sheila Kohler

Dreaming for Freud

By Sheila Kohler - Published 2014

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During an eleven-week period in 1900, Sigmund Freud treated an eighteen-year-old girl for hysteria and wrote about his treatment in one of the most ...Read Review

The Bay of Foxes

By Sheila Kohler - Published 2012

Genres:

Thriller

Dawit walks the streets of 1978 Paris, his stomach aching from hunger and his mind full of thoughts of his destroyed homeland: Ethiopia. As ...Read Review

Love Child

By Sheila Kohler - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

After her lawyer advises Bill to write her will, the beautiful, wealthy widow sets out to examine her life and the people around ...Read Review

Becoming Jane Eyre

By Sheila Kohler - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Literary

In 1846, the educated but unworldly daughter of a Yorkshire clergyman begins writing a novel. It is not her first effort but the first ...Read Review

Becoming Jane Eyre

By Sheila Kohler - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1846, the educated but unworldly daughter of a Yorkshire clergyman begins writing a novel. It is not her first effort but the first ...Read Review

Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness

By Sheila Kohler - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Upon occasion a reviewer is familiar with the source material for a fictional biographical novel, and therefore dreads the transformation from actual to ...Read Review