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The Darcys & the Bingleys
Subtitled A Tale of Two Gentlemen’s Marriages To Two Most Devoted Sisters, this novel begins a few days before the…
A Penny a Day
This, one of Lilian Harry’s Burracombe novels, is the fourth of her books I have reviewed. They were all excellent…
Jeremy Poldark
Set in Cornwall towards the end of the 18th century, the first three books in the Poldark series tell the…
Demelza
Set in Cornwall towards the end of the 18th century, the first three books in the Poldark series tell the…
The World a Moment Later
This novel, translated from the Hebrew, is by a prize-winning novelist who served in the Israeli air force. Leapfrogging back…
Ross Poldark
Set in Cornwall towards the end of the 18th century, the first three books in the Poldark series tell the…
The Dam Builders
On Memorial Day, 1948, the Vanport River breaks its dikes and devastates a community of World War II veterans and…
The Four Seasons
Two sisters, Chiaretta and Maddalena, are abandoned at a religious foundling home in 18th-century Venice. The Pietà raises its orphans…
The House of Allerbrook
This entertaining if slightly overlong followup to The House of Lanyon, which like its predecessor is set on rural Exmoor…
Eliza’s Daughter
This Jane Austen sequel is based on Sense and Sensibility and follows Willoughby’s illegitimate daughter by his jilted lover, Eliza.…
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