- Location(s): Florence, Italy
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940
Italy, 1940. With Florence on the cusp of war, Il Scorpione, the no-nonsense Englishwomen of the city, find their genteel livelihoods under grave threat by the approach of the Nazis. Tea rooms and bookshops are closed by the Fascists,...
- Location(s): Minnesota
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
During the long farewell of her mother’s dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entries into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Golden peonies bowing their heads beneath blue delphinium bells. Delicate pink anemones threaded between freckled green orchids. Soft apricot roses woven together with velvety purple irises. Every bouquet tells a story. And every story begins at Blossom & Grow,...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
An accomplished debut, The Flower Boy is the tragically romantic story of people from two cultures, one ruling the other, and the human passions that defy and nearly overcome social taboos. In the colonial society of 1930s Ceylon, the...










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