Yellow Wife tells a tale of Pheby Delores Brown, an enslaved woman whose life we follow from a fairly privileged position on a plantation to serving as the concubine of a cruel man who runs a jail/breaking house/auction service for enslaved people in Richmond, Virginia. The novel has been around for awhile now and the … Continue reading Yellow Wife -Sadeqa Johnson (Audio)
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Chevy in the Hole – Kelsey Ronan
Let me start by saying this is an AMAZING book, successfully jumping timelines and generations in two families from Flint, Michigan and portraying the history of the city in an engaging, emotionally meaningful and factual way. I'm one of those people who paid attention to Flint, Michigan pretty much since I saw Roger and Me … Continue reading Chevy in the Hole – Kelsey Ronan
The Mitford Vanishing; and The Mitford Secret – Jessica Fellowes
The Mitford Vanishing -2021 For all of you who already have read Jessica Fellowes' five Mitford family murder mysteries featuring former nurserymaid turned sleuth, Louisa Cannon, why didn't somebody tell me about them?! The Mitford Vanishing finds Louisa married to former D.I. Guy Sullivan and mother to their baby Maisie nearing a year old. Louisa … Continue reading The Mitford Vanishing; and The Mitford Secret – Jessica Fellowes
The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams
This is about as perfectly written a piece of historical fiction as I've ever read. It is the story of Esme from ages six to twenty-five and no--- you don't have to be a history buff, an Oxford English Dictionary nerd, a turn of the century social history expert, a fan of women's suffrage lore, … Continue reading The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams
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