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Posts Tagged: women’s fiction

The Lantern, book review

by Katherine
The Lantern, the latest offering by journalist-cum-novelist Deborah Lawrenson appeared on several must-read lists in the past year or so. Lawrenson spent her childhood in Kuwait, C...
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The Baker’s Wife, book review

by Katherine
Erin Healy, editor-turned-novelist, knows fiction from the inside out. She spent many years as an award-winning fiction editor working with such renowned novelists as James Scott ...
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Blackberry Winter, book review

by Katherine
Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio, the She Reads Book Club October selection…and now a NY Times Bestseller. From the back cover: Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her...
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Wallflower in Bloom, book review

by Katherine
Wallflower in Bloom by Claire Cook–a recent She Reads Book Club Selection. Deirdre Griffin has no life. Or rather she has one, but it belongs to her domineering family and he...
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Barefoot, book review

by Katherine
No summer of mine would be complete without an Elin Hilderbrand novel, and this year’s choice was Barefoot (2007). Hilderbrand women’s fiction, set in her trademark N...
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Home Safe, book review

by Katherine
Reading a new Elizabeth Berg novel always feels to me like returning to a favorite friend—a wise, warm and witty one. In Home Safe we find the story of Helen Ames following the s...
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A Month of Summer, book review

by Katherine
For my taste, Lisa Wingate novels are hit and miss. While I admire this Christian novelist for her ability to cross over into the mainstream market, I find some of her novels anem...
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The Help, book review

by Katherine
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Maybe you’ve read it. Me, I’m on the tail end of the wave. When The Help first hit ...
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My Soul to Keep, book review

by Katherine
I waited years to hear more from Melanie Wells and was thrilled to finally spot her latest on Amazon. In My Soul to Keep, the third of The Dylan Foster series, psychology professor...
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