HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
The Woman Beyond the Sea
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This story begins in the early 1970s, but then wanders back and forth across generations as three women search for meaning in their ...Read Review
A Million to One
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
1912, Cork, Ireland. The White Star Line’s luxury ship, the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic, the biggest in the world, is making her maiden voyage. Four ...Read Review
Vita and the Birds
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Vita and the Birds shifts between 1938 and 1997 and follows two women – Lady Vita Goldsborough and Eve Blakeney – as they each attempt to cope ...Read Review
Her Own Legacy (Château de Verzat)
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Joliette de Verzat, a young noblewoman just before the French Revolution, loves her family’s vineyard and wants to continue her late grandmother’...Read Review
The End of Drum-Time
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In the austere reaches of mid-19th-century northern Scandinavia, two ways of life collide. The native Sámi, or Lapps, as the Swedish ...Read Review
The Maiden
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In 1679, Lady Christian Nimmo stabbed her lover, Lord James Forrester, to death and was sentenced to ‘kiss the Maiden’, the guillotine which rose ...Read Review
Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
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While Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley each stand alone for their contributions to feminism and fiction respectively, there’s something about their being ...Read Review
Acts of Resistance
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In Bulgaria in 1943, the Nazis are making deals with a collaborationist regime to deport the country’s Jewish population to death camps. Three ...Read Review
The Rose and the Thistle
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The lead-up to the 1715 Jacobite Rising is the backdrop to Frantz’s latest Scottish romance. We fall easily into her 18th-century world, set ...Read Review
The Lady in the Moneylender’s Parlour (Allen Abbey Romances Book 2)
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After losing a hand at Waterloo and selling out from the cavalry, Captain William Allen’s life spirals downward, but in the moneylender’...Read Review
