Douglas Kemp
Try Before You Trust: To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love
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London in the early autumn of 1567, and Isabella Whitney, aged 18, arrives at the substantial London home of the widowed Lady Bramwell. As a ...Read Review
Leaving Fatherland
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Oskar Bachmann is a bookish adolescent in late 1920s Germany. But domestic life in his small hometown just south of Berlin is dominated ...Read Review
A Particular Man
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England in the autumn of 1945. Despite the victory in the War, life in Britain remains dull, austere and flat. The firmly middle-class Everett ...Read Review
The Night in Venice
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More usually known as novelist Andrew Martin, the author has written an utterly beguiling story set in Edwardian England and Venice. It is 1911, ...Read Review
Small Bomb At Dimperley
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England 1945, and Dimperley Manor in Buckinghamshire is recovering from the predations of war, having been used as a home for pregnant women whose ...Read Review
A Woman of Opinion
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This is a fictionalized autobiography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the renowned 18th-century woman of letters, traveller, and thoroughly unconventional and eccentric character. ...Read Review
The Small Museum
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London in the latter part of the 19th century. Madeleine, a young woman from rural Cheshire, is newly married to Dr Lucius Everley ...Read Review
Estella’s Revenge
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Writing a sequel or a novel with a character’s alternative perception presents challenges to the author, in that the reader needs to ...Read Review
Alvesdon
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August 1939, and once more Britain is on the brink of a terrible global conflict. The Castells are a long-established landed farming family in ...Read Review
The Silence In Between
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This story is set in Berlin in the tumultuous German middle-third of the century. Lisette lives with her husband, 15-year-old daughter Elly and ...Read Review
