HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
The House of Hope (The House of Help for Friendless Girls, 1)
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The word ‘hope’ has a double significance in this novel of 19th-century Sheffield. The House of Hope is a refuge which takes in ...Read Review
Daughter of Ruins
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This story of Demitra, a girl growing to maturity in a small Greek village in the mid-20th century, has depth and imagery ...Read Review
The Story Spinner
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Wales, present day, and poet Cadi Jones works on a retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the famous book of Welsh legends. Her ...Read Review
The Valkyrie
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Set in the closing period of the Western Roman Empire and Attila the Hun, Heartfield’s novel is a retelling of a Norse ...Read Review
When We Chased the Light
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1998, Beverly Hills, California: Setting the stage for the story to follow, Christie’s, the famed British auction house, issues a press release announcing ...Read Review
Sleeping in the Sun
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Twelve-year-old Gene Hinton is the youngest of four brothers in 1930s India. Gene’s American Baptist missionary parents arrived in Bengal twenty years ...Read Review
The Stone Witch of Florence
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In the summer of 1348, the Black Plague is sweeping Italy. An unexpected messenger shows up at Ginevra’s door in Genoa with a ...Read Review
Where the Stars Cross
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Ellie Todd’s life is doing about as well as the economy in mid-1930s Chicago. Her husband left her for a younger ...Read Review
The Decision
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The decision made in this novel may seem to be an innocuous, trivial one. But history and circumstance can make the most mundane ...Read Review
The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right
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When Arabella Grant’s cruel aunt unexpectedly drops dead, she and her cousin Lady Isabelle are grateful to escape her tyranny. Too soon, ...Read Review
