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Historical Fiction September 2024 |
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| House of Shades by Lianne DillsworthIn 1833 London, Hester Reeves, a 23-year-old Black doctor/herbalist, takes a high-paying job caring for dying Gervaise Cherville at his mansion. When he asks Hester to find two women whom he enslaved in Honduras and later employed in England, things get complicated and she wonders if he's being truthful about wanting to make amends. Read-alike: The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé. |
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| Beyond Summerland by Jenny LecoatAfter World War II ends and the English island of Jersey is liberated from its German occupiers, 19-year-old Jean Parris learns that her father, arrested 15 months earlier for owning a radio, may have been turned in by a neighbor. She sets out to uncover the truth while keeping a dangerous secret of her own. Read-alikes: Kate Thompson's The Wartime Book Club; Jacqueline Winspear's The White Lady; Ruth Druart's The Last Hours in Paris. |
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| Scandalous Women by Gill PaulTaking place in New York and England between 1965 and 1975, this gossipy, fun novel is narrated by a trio of women trying to make it in a man's world: recent college grad and editorial assistant Nancy White and the groundbreaking real-life authors she works with, Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins (who, in this fictional tale, become best friends). Read-alike: Park Avenue Summer by Renée Rosen. |
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