HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
Cutting for Stone
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Born in 1954 to an Indian Carmelite nun and a promising British surgeon in an Ethiopian hospital, Marion Stone narrates the story of his ...Read Review
A Mad Desire to Dance
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This elegiac novel follows Doriel, a man who fears he is either mad or possessed by a dybukk, and Dr. Therese Goldschmidt, the ...Read Review
An Incomplete Revenge
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As a Maisie Dobbs newcomer, for me this book was a revelation. It is fresh, unpretentious, and totally gripping. Unlike her other books—...Read Review
Tainted Tree
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This rambling book, which was sent to me for review as a historical novel, is set in 1991 and the ’60s. It contains no ...Read Review
Twelve
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This book is described in the publicity as ‘genre breaking’ and the ‘first Napoleonic historical vampire novel’. I do not propose to discuss ...Read Review
Twelve
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Set in 1812, this book tells the story of Napoleon’s assault on Moscow. Russian city after Russian city has fallen to the French, ...Read Review
What Would Jane Austen Do?
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Eleanor Pottinger has traveled to England for a Jane Austen convention. Rather than giving her costume history lecture as she’d planned, she ...Read Review
Drood
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
In 1865, Charles Dickens, returning from a holiday with his mistress and her mother, is involved in the disastrous railway accident at Staplehurst. ...Read Review
The Great Lover
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The island of Tahiti holds a fascination for troubled souls. Gauguin lived there in the 1890s. So too, in the early months ...Read Review
Cast the First Stone
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Trinidad (Trini) Bates is a dowser, which means that she uses either a crystal pendulum or a divining rod to find things ...Read Review
