HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
A Claim of Her Own
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Desperate to escape an abusive employer, twenty-year-old Mattie O’Keefe makes the arduous trek to the gold-rush town of Deadwood, in the Black ...Read Review
Whose Turn for the Stairs?
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This debut novel (the author has previously published non-fiction) is set in Glasgow and covers the year 1949 in a particular tenement close, getting ...Read Review
Enduring
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The novel encompasses the breadth of the 20th century as it follows the life of Latha Bourne, a resident of Stay More, a ...Read Review
Willoughby’s Return
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Odiwe’s follow-up to Sense and Sensibility tries hard to invoke the Austen magic, but sadly isn’t quite up to the mark. ...Read Review
Sheer Folly
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In this latest addition to Carola Dunn’s mystery series set in 1920s England, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, now the mother of twins, and ...Read Review
The Foreign Field
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This is the 31st installment in Harrod-Eagles’ Morland Dynasty series, which traces 500 years of British history from the point of view of the ...Read Review
Stone’s Fall
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The story straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, and, like the author’s An Instance of the Fingerpost, is narrated by a number ...Read Review
Broken Music
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In the golden summer of 1914, Lady Sybil Foley plans a dinner party. Her husband, “self-made man” Alfred, has provided her lavish life style ...Read Review
Springtime in Burracombe
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This is the fourth of Lilian Harry’s Burracombe novels. It opens in the spring of 1953 with an accident befalling elderly Constance Bellamy, ...Read Review
What Remains of Heaven
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Regency London is stunned by the murder of the bishop, Sir Francis Prescott. Responding to the request of his aunt and the Archbishop ...Read Review
