HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
The Swiss Nurse
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This novel is based on the real-life story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, who ministered to the orphaned children and expectant mothers displaced by the ...Read Review
Foxash
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1934. Worn down by poverty, Lettie Radley arrives in Foxash, Essex, to join her out-of-work miner husband, Tommy. Their new smallholding may well be ...Read Review
The Gentleman in the Ash Tree (Allen Abbey Romances Book 1)
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When Eloise Blackburn discovers a stranger hiding in an ash tree, she is unconvinced that he really is the nephew of the neighboring ...Read Review
A Keeper of Tales (Grandmothers’ Footsteps Book 2)
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Oxford, 1885: in this second novel of Pemberton’s Grandmother’s Footsteps series, following on from A Teller of Tales, vicar’s daughter Harriet ...Read Review
Code Name Elodie (Bletchley Park Girls)
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Blending fiction with historical figures, Code Name Elodie follows directly from its prequel The Bletchley Girls, documenting the latter half of the war, ...Read Review
Viviana Valentine Goes Up the River (A Girl Friday Mystery)
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1950, New York: Viviana Valentine, partner to Tommy Fortuna, New York’s top private investigator, heads north to Tarrytown when wealthy scientist Buster Beacon ...Read Review
According To Her
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If you could interview the mother of Yehoshua (Jesus), what might you ask? Maciej Hen envisions this in his novel, as 100-year-old Mariamne ...Read Review
Clayton Sharp: Life or Death
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Fifty-one-year-old marshal Ray DeSean watches over the quiet Colorado town of Dead Elk. But, in the fall of 1867, trouble arrives. The Clayton Sharp ...Read Review
The Proxy Bride
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In the mid-20th century, thousands of proxy brides travelled from Italy to Australia to marry men who had emigrated but found there ...Read Review
Hemlock Hollow
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Shortly after her father’s death, Caroline McAlister returns to the disused family cabin in the Carolina mountains where her happiest childhood memories ...Read Review