Tag: new york
+ 1950s, alcoholism, bullying, childhood, family, family drama, fiction, marriage, motherhood, review
The Butterfly Bush by Josephine DeFalco (Book 1 of The Butterfly Series)
Growing up and figuring out who you are has never been easy. It’s the early 1950s, and following her husband’s death in WWII, Leandra’s mama yanks her off the family’s Appalachian farm to fulfill her personal dream to live in a big city. Leandra, only thirteen years old, learns that survival is best accomplished by pushing aside her country identity to fit into city … Read More The Butterfly Bush by Josephine DeFalco (Book 1 of The Butterfly Series)
+ art, London, marriage, relationships, USA
Late Venetian by GN Lawson
A disgraced former MP, Teddy Chesterton, is dying. He wants to put things right with his ex-wife, Laura, the only woman he has ever loved, but who left him after believing he deceived her. Teddy finds out that Laura has recently been widowed and invites her to come with him to Venice. To his surprise, she accepts. #LateVenetian X(Twitter) #GNLawson @BlossomSpring3 @ZooloosBT #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour #booktwitterInstagram @blossom.spring.publishing @zooloosbooktours #bookstagram They first meet at … Read More Late Venetian by GN Lawson
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton. Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already … Read More The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Miss Harris in the New World (The Company of Fools) by Peter Maughan
A collection of theatrical misfits goes on tour across the Atlantic in this nostalgic post-war novel sure to delight fans of P. G. Wodehouse. The Red Lion production of ‘Love and Miss Harris’ is booked to tour America, opening in Manhattan. #MissHarrisInTheNewWorld X/Twitter #PeterMaughan @farragobooks #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #blogtour #BookXInstagram @farragobooks @randomthingstours #bookstagram On arrival the group finds that it’s not the Manhattan with the Great White Way of Broadway at … Read More Miss Harris in the New World (The Company of Fools) by Peter Maughan
+ Belfast, crime fiction, eighties, fiction, friendship, Ireland, journalist, murder, obsession, review, serial killer, thriller, USA
The Wolf Is At Your Door by Simon Maltman
New York, 1987. Rory is a likeable career thief originally from war-torn Belfast, planning out his next big score. A serial killer is murdering women in the city. But no bodies are ever found; just missing girls and cryptic plaques left on benches in Central Park. #TheWolfIsAtYourDoor @simonmaltman @AestheticPress1 @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour When the killer strikes too close to home, Rory becomes unhealthily obsessed … Read More The Wolf Is At Your Door by Simon Maltman
+ brothers, childhood, faeries, fairies, folklore, friendship, Historical fiction, Ireland, jewish history, jews, literature, love, Magical realism, mythology, religion, review, sisters, superstition, tradition
Tunnel Of Mirrors by Ferne Arfin
June 1907. Rachel Isaacson, a spirit child, is born into a large and rigidly orthodox Jewish family in the Lower East Side. Hungry for freedom, dominated by a tyrannical father and haunted by inexplicable visions and voices, Rachel’s quest for independence leads her into a marriage of convenience with tragic consequences. Across the Atlantic, Ciaran McMurrough, storyteller, fiddler and cliff climber, leads a life … Read More Tunnel Of Mirrors by Ferne Arfin
Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau
The year is 1911 when twenty-year-old heiress Peggy Batternberg is invited to spend the summer in America’s Playground. The invitation to the luxurious Oriental Hotel a mile from Coney Island is unwelcome. Despite hailing from one of America’s richest families, Peggy would much rather spend the summer working at the Moonrise Bookstore than keeping up appearances with New York City socialites and her snobbish, … Read More Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau
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