Janice Ottersberg
A Perfect Hand
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Alice Lockey prides herself as a lady’s maid to Lady Jemima. Lady Jemima is frivolous and vain, indolent and quarrelsome, and very ...Read Review
Land
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It is 1865, and Ireland has come through the Great Famine. The land still manifests the trauma and scars – cottages in ruins, millions dead ...Read Review
Five Weeks in the Country
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In 1857, Hans Christian Andersen shows up at Charles Dickens’s country home in Kent, having received an impulsive, soon to be regretful, invitation ...Read Review
Lázár
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Lajos von Lázár is born at the dawn of a new century in 1900 to Sándor von Lázár and ...Read Review
The Fourth Wife
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In 1880s Utah Territory, the polygamous practice of the Mormon church is coming under the scrutiny of Federal officials. Hazel has been raised ...Read Review
Hope and Destiny
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The Kingdom of Sweden in 1434 is in turmoil under King Eric. A revolt of Northmen and peasants against burdensome taxes is led by ...Read Review
The Sea Child
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Isabel arrives at the seaside village of Helford in Cornwall. Burdened with her dead husband’s debts and evading gossip about improper behavior, ...Read Review
The Last of Earth
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Tibet’s peaks and canyons are treacherous, its high elevations devoid of vegetation, but its special beauty is seen through Anappara’s rich ...Read Review
The Scent of Oranges
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In Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Fagin has taken the child Nancy from the streets of Victorian London, where she has been living her ...Read Review
She Made Herself a Monster
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Superstition and gossip fuel life in a 19th-century Bulgarian village. Creatures stalk the nights; misfortune dominates their lives. Yana, born with a face ...Read Review
