HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
The Final Act
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It is spring 1944. Before the war ends, Richard makes a mistake behind enemy lines which results in devastating tragedy. Rose has to make ...Read Review
A Match for Mary Bennet
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Without recourse to murder mysteries or explicit un-Austenlike bedroom details (not that I don’t enjoy those too), Eucharista Ward has given us ...Read Review
The Harrowing
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On the eve of joining his regiment in January 1916, William Redmond takes one last walk with his younger brother, Samuel, through the back ...Read Review
Snow Falling on Cedars
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In 1954, a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. Prejudice, ...Read Review
A Bride in the Bargain
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In 1865, the land of Seattle, Washington Territory, belongs to landowners with wives: a married man can acquire 640 acres of timberland, but bachelors don’...Read Review
Jarrettsville
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Biographical FictionLiteraryMystery/Crime
In 1869, Martha Cairnes walks up to the porch of a hotel in Jarrettsville, Maryland, where a group of ex-Union soldiers are celebrating the ...Read Review
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
