Cynthia McArthur
William and Lucy
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This novel imagines the love affair between William Wordsworth and his muse Lucy Sims as the inspiration for his poem “She Dwelt Among ...Read Review
Her Highness, The Traitor
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This is not the story of the nine-day Queen, Lady Jane Grey, but of her family, her husband Guildford Dudley’s family, and ...Read Review
Under the Same Sky
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Maggie and her sisters are left to fend for themselves in colonial South Carolina after their brutish father dies in a freak accident. ...Read Review
Beyond the Wood
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Set during the American Civil War and “not long ago,” this is the story of Union soldier Hank Gragg and his several-times great ...Read Review
You Are Not Like Other Mothers
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You Are Not Like Other Mothers is a simple title for a book that is neither simple fiction nor dry enough to be ...Read Review
Shadow of the Green Cross
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Isabel Alvares is the daughter of a prominent Jewish bookseller. Her family is forced into baptism by the Spanish Inquisition when she is ...Read Review
Accidents of Providence
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Set in England during Cromwell’s interregnum, Accidents of Providence centers on Rachel Lockyer, a glove maker’s apprentice accused of murdering her ...Read Review
My Enemy’s Tears
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Mary Bliss (Parsons) moves with her family from England to the colonies to escape religious persecution and the King’s tyranny. We watch ...Read Review
By the King’s Design
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Annabelle Stirling (Belle) and her flighty, journal-writing brother Wesley own a draper’s shop in Yorkshire until a Luddite mob, unhappy with Belle’...Read Review
Fires of Winter
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Fires of Winter is a journey through 12th-century England as seen from the perspective of Bruno, the son of the Lord of Jernaeve ...Read Review
