Tag: England
Paying Guests
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/02/26/paying-guests/
Title: The Paying Guests Author: Sarah Waters Publisher: Riverhead Books, September 2014 Summary/Review: I have never read the fiction of Sarah Waters before, but I am happy to have now read The Paying Guests. She writes beautifully – creating characters that you can...
Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/01/11/just-what-kind-of-mother-are-you-2/
Title: Just What Kind of Mother Are You? Author: Paula Daly Publisher: Grove Press, 2013 Summary/Review: The words that no woman ever wants to hear. “Just what kind of mother are you?” Lisa Kallisto is sure people are asking that question of her. She...
Harold Fry
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/01/17/harold-fry/
Title: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Author: Rachel Joyce Publisher: Random House, 2012 Review/Summary: Harold Frye, recently retired, lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. They have settled into a mundane existence....
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/09/10/major-pettigrews-last-stand/
Title: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Author: Helen Simonson Publisher: Random House, March 2010 Summary: I fell in love with widower Major Ernest Pettigrew about six pages in! The story takes place in a quaint English village, where the Major’s brother’s sudden death and the propriety of...
The Queen’s Governess
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/03/15/the-queens-governess/
Title: The Queen’s Governess Author: Karen Harper Publisher: Putnam, January 2010 Summary: Behind every great queen is a surrogate mother. In her latest novel, The Queen’s Governess, Karen Harper, provides the story of Katherine Champernowne Ashley who brought up the young Elizabeth. Katherine Ashely stood by Elizabeth during...
Harry of Monmouth
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/12/05/harry-of-monmouth/
Title: Harry of Monmouth Author: A. M. Maughan Publisher: W. Sloane Associates, 1956 Summary: This classic novel brings to life Henry V, the victor of Agincourt. From the loss of his mother as a boy to generational based conflicts with his father, Henry IV, and sibling rivalry with his...
Lady Jane Grey
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/10/27/lady-jane-grey/
Title: Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery Author: Eric Ives Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, October 2009 Summary: Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII’s younger sister Mary Tudor, is probably the most tragic victim of the Tudor dynasty, ending her life on the scaffold at the...
Little Bee
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/04/13/little-bee/
Title: Little Bee Author: Chris Cleave Publisher: Simon & Schuster, February 2009 Summary: Chris Cleave’s second novel is quite an accomplishment. There are some beautiful moments, and some horrific moments throughout this complex story, told to us by two very different women who have...
Hold My Hand
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/11/06/hold-my-hand/
Title: Hold My Hand Author: Serena Mackesy Publisher: Constable, October 2008 Summary: All Bridget wants is a safe place to raise her daughter Yasmin. The flat they share in London has become a prison instead of a home. Though Bridget has divorced her abusive husband...
The Other Queen
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/10/13/the-other-queen/
Title: The Other Queen Author: Philippa Gregory Publisher: Touchstone, September, 2008 Summary: Mary, Queen of Scots, might be the most infamous royal in all of European history: She led a life of intrigue and scandal that landed her, at age 26 and a widow twice-over, in the hands...