The brutalities of World War I left all sorts of injuries in its wake – fractured skulls, frost bitten feet, and severed limbs. Lucius was the surgeon in charge of mending these wounds. However, this…
Browsing Category Historical Fiction
The Subway Girls by Susie Orman Schnall
There’s something irresistible about the magic of New York City in the 1940s. Present day, advertising executive Olivia works at a boutique agency in danger of folding if they don’t land a big account. She…
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
They say home is where the heart is, but what if your heart gets left behind? Before We Were Yours is a heart wrenching story told in a now and then narrative based on the…
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
What happens when the glitz and glamour of Hollywood collides with a small Italian town? We find out in Beautiful Ruins when a beautiful starlet “accidentally” ends up in Porto Vergogna, Italy (the wannabe “sixth…
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan – HIS AND HER REVIEW
Pino is a son, skier, smuggler, but most importantly, Pino is a survivor. The teenager is denied a normal life when bombs rain down on Milan as Allied forces attempt to reclaim Italy from German…
The Ninth Hour: A Novel by Alice McDermott
Love. Friendship. Sacrifice. This novel is about sisterly love – not biological sisters or sorority sisters, but religious sisters – nuns. More specifically, it is a story of women supporting each other, which I found…