Katherine Mezzacappa
Where They Lie
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Dublin, 1968: in the news room of a city newspaper on a slow night near Christmas, the conversation amongst reporters turns to a convicted ...Read Review
Arresting Beauty
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Putney Heath, 1858: Julia Margaret Cameron finds the ten-year-old Mary Ryan begging, and takes her in as a maid, later using her as a ...Read Review
The Vanitas & Other Tales of Art and Obsession
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In settings ranging from the Rome of Caravaggio to the 19th-century Netherlands to near-modern London, this collection of short stories (plus the novella ...Read Review
A Woman of Courage
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Sunderland, 1890: fifteen-year-old Josie Gray, daughter of a work-shy father, supplements the family income by singing in a pub, where she attracts the attention ...Read Review
Jabberwock
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Dublin, the eve of World War II: Ignatius Hackett, one-time journalist, former patient of Dean Swift’s Mental Asylum, is on his uppers ...Read Review
Trust: The Anatomy of a Marriage
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Bedfordshire, 1649: This portrait of a marriage is based on the true story of Dorothy Osborne, wife of Sir William Temple, employer of a ...Read Review
Unpicking
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Stirling, 1877: Lillias Gilfillan, an orphaned sixteen-year-old, elopes with a man who tells her he has expectations but instead steadily eats into her inheritance, ...Read Review
A Wife’s Courage
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London, 1944: in the third book of Neale’s Battersea Tavern trilogy, the wife of the title is Maureen, unhappily married to the work-shy, ...Read Review
Tangled Webs
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Belfast, 1922: middle-class widow Jane Best, the possessor of a ‘public smile,’ runs, with her friend Agnes Williams, the Riverview boarding house for young ...Read Review
The Lost Books: Romance and Adventure in Tudor Times
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Cornwall, 1500s: Morwenna Goodwin initially refuses the hand of Henry Truelove, preferring to muck out byres on her yeoman father’s farm whilst ...Read Review