Blogs in August 2021

The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence 4th August 2021

“In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse that inspired them all.”...

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The Artist Colony 4th August 2021

July 1924. Sarah Cunningham, a young Modernist painter, arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea from Paris to bury her older sister, Ada Belle. En route, she is shocked to learn that Ada Belle’s suspicious death is a suicide. But why kill herself?...

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Daughters of Sparta 3rd August 2021

The story of the Siege of Troy from the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra’s points of view – a tale of secrets, passion and revenge from the women behind mythology’s most devastating war. Two sisters parted. Two women...

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Her Previous Self 3rd August 2021

Two women, living two hundred years apart but closer than sisters. Mary, miserable in her marriage to Thomas Carre, a merchant and privateer and living in the new family mansion in Georgian Guernsey. Lucy, separated from her husband after...

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The Sultan’s Wife 2nd August 2021

A sweeping historical adventure, set in 17th-century Morocco, from the bestselling author of Court of Lions. Morocco, 1677 The tyrannical King Ismail resides over the palace of Meknes. Through the sweltering heat of the palace streets, Nus Nus, slave...

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