HNR Issue 85 (August 2018)
The Queen’s Promise
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Vantrease’s long-awaited return to the historical fiction scene showcases her painstaking attention to characterization and period atmosphere. Opening with a prologue depicting ...Read Review
The Heart’s Appeal
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Julia Bernay grew up in an orphanage in London, but always planned to become a doctor, despite the fact that society frowns upon ...Read Review
Winning Miss Winthrop
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In 1816 England, estates were usually entailed to male heirs. Therefore, when Lord Walter Winthrop died without male heirs, everything went to a distant ...Read Review
The Removes
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In the late 19th century, General Armstrong Custer embodied the mixed feelings of Manifest Destiny in the United States, and this book not ...Read Review
Dodging and Burning
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Copenhaver’s debut novel gives readers a gorgeous, critical look at the LGBTQ community in post-WWII society, revolving around a murder. In Royal ...Read Review
The Dying of the Light
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The only way to save Saratoga, the grand Virginia estate that has been in the Cooke family for five generations, is for Diana ...Read Review
The Black Silk Purse
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I thoroughly enjoyed The Black Silk Purse. Set in Edwardian England on the brink of suffrage, the novel follows the lives of three ...Read Review
The Secret of the Irish Castle
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Ballinakelly is a beautiful village in Ireland, one where the Deverill and O’Leary families are victims of a curse that Maggie O’...Read Review
House of Gold
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The Goldbaums are a wealthy Jewish family with considerable political and economic influence throughout Europe. It is 1911, and the world has little inkling ...Read Review
Hag
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In the years after WWII, a little girl grows up in Glasgow and later moves with her mother to Colorado. Alice Grace is ...Read Review
