Hazel Gaynor
Christmas with the Queen
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This delightful seasonal novel begins in 1952 with Queen Elizabeth II, not long after her father’s untimely death. Although it takes place mostly ...Read Review
The Last Lifeboat
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Alice King wants to do something significant to support Great Britain during World War II. Something more than being a librarian, even though ...Read Review
Three Words for Goodbye: A Novel
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Violet, too ill to travel in 1937, has organized a journey to Europe for granddaughters Clara and Maddy to deliver good-bye letters to the ...Read Review
When We Were Young & Brave (US/CAN) / The Bird in the Bamboo Cage (UK)
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This absorbing book about courage and fortitude transports the reader inside a Japanese internment camp during the World War II years. Elspeth is ...Read Review
Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly’s Royal Wedding
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At the Cannes Film Festival in 1955, Grace Kelly spends most of her time escaping the relentless paparazzi but isn’t good at it. ...Read Review
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
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Grace Darling loves life on Longstone Island, in Northumberland, England, where she helps her father with lighthouse duties at night and collects specimens ...Read Review
Last Christmas in Paris
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Few challenges are more daunting for two writers than attempting to take on a narrative told almost exclusively through an exchange of letters. ...Read Review
The Cottingley Secret
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In 1917, nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother arrive in Cottingley, Yorkshire, from South Africa, to stay with her aunt, uncle and cousin Elsie ...Read Review
The Girl from the Savoy
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Dolly Lane’s dream is to be someone, specifically a chorus girl in post-Great War London. Her move from being a maid at ...Read Review
Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War
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Survivors of the Great War (1914–1918) inhabit these stories of love and hope in the aftermath of carnage. Written by nine accomplished authors of ...Read Review