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===[[The Story Keeper Turn of Midnight by Anna MazzolaMinette Walters]]===
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Audrey, At the beginning of 1349 there is a complex mix glimmer of flights a hope that the ravages of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to the Black Death might be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her homepassing. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once In Devilish in his life threw caution to Dorset the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what population is rightwell, what is properbecause of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the bastion strict rules of doing what is expectedthe church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Story Keeper Turn of Midnight by Anna MazzolaMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Frieda by Victoria GlendinningAnnabel Abbs]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of intrigue, plots and machinationsmarried life. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerfulVisiting family in Munich, with so many to choose from that she becomes captivated by the well never seems to run dry ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get therepenniless writer D. This book, however, is totally differentH. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes PeppinLawrence, she finds herself drawn into a young, poor woman. As passionate affair and a woman she can either marrytempestuous relationship, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at allchanging the course of both their lives, and she is sent to join unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the nuns course of Shaftesbury Abbeyliterature forever. [[The Butcher's Daughter Frieda by Victoria GlendinningAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert House of Glass by David LongridgeSusan Fletcher]]===
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As Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At the shadow beginning of the Second World War descends upon the planettwentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, four people are explored in living life through a tale of love window and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legiontales her mother, BillCharlotte, arriving at Cambridge brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil''. As Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty age of thirty nine - and love leading in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themthe offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[Silence in the Desert House of Glass by David LongridgeSusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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When it comes to Jane SeymourFlitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the third wife fascinating tale of Henry VIIIthe Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, popular opinion the Wilde House is dividedbeing turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker It is told from an ambitious family the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who would stop at nothing to gain favour is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in the kingtragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's eyes. Others view her as sister, Lydia, and a pious and GodFrench-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-fearing woman Philippe who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage was sent to Anne Boleynlive there. Perhaps both sides are trueThe perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, to an extentthen Lydia and Jean-Philippe. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' latter two tell the third book truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' serieshistory, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessorjust as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Bellewether by Alison WeirSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name A Treachery of Spies by Marcus DalrympleManda Scott]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the end horrific murder of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent manstrikingly beautiful elderly lady, particularly by she's puzzled – whilst the standards identity of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forcewoman has been erased, but at the age of twenty three he believed it's clear that the expedition she has been killed in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants same way that traitors to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificesresistance were executed in World War Two. He'd joined Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the army from history of this woman – and back to a seminary time when the men and whilst you wouldn't call him naivewomen of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, he'd failed brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to appreciate light, Inès discovers that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing there are many in the Aztec gold present who would rather their past stay buried – and that any conversion many who would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. kill to keep secrets safe… [[In Gold's Name A Treachery of Spies by Marcus DalrympleManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness Murmuration by James HallRobert Lock]]===
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''The Industry of Human HappinessMurmuration'' first and foremost is follows the lives of a novel about musichost of characters from 1863 to the present day. It is about human beings being able From a risqué comic to find music and magic in a fortune teller, we see the simplest birth of placesBlackpool and its steadily fading glamour. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of opening a gramophone company. Howeverstarlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their drawing together disparate stories of lives changed forevercaptivated by the sea. [[The Industry of Human Happiness Murmuration by James HallRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Mercy Seat by Jon Michael VareseElizabeth H Winthrop]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an [[image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background:4. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about Witchcraft, the supernatural and the arrival of Frederick Douglass will to survive at all costs collide in Ireland. And even more excited a story that his Quaker father, who is publishing never shies away from the British edition darker side of ''Narrative''human nature. The land is unhappy, Douglass's memoir the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of his life as a slavethe old faith. As fear rises, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tourit is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. Nathan The sacred well is deeply impressed by Douglasstainted, who is a charismatic figure its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors wind of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connellchange. [[Precept: A Novel Gathering of Ghosts by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Mr Peacock's Possessions by Daniel PeltzLydia Syson]]===
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When we first visit On a remote volcanic island off the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company coast of Molly Cavendish who is New Zealand, a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins family of the Chiesa - settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a chapel - have now becomehome. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceWhen a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and old. Molly uses newcomers come together in the history to entertain search for the touristschild, they uncover far, but there's far more too it than she knows, particularly as they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, island and those who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museuminhabit it. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Mr Peacock's Possessions by Daniel PeltzLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story Audrey, a complex mix of flights of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleynfancy and seriousness, his divorce from Katherine of Aragonwanting, Anne's execution for adulteryneeding, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymourbe more than what everyone expects of her, which finally produces escapes from the much longed for birth straightjacket of a male heirher home. This timeWhere every action, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterevery thought, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she every yearning is treated terribly controlled by a her father under , who only once in his life threw caution to the influence of the Boleyn factionwind and married way beneath him for love. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years Now a widower and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the middle bastion of these tumultuous eventsdoing what is expected. [[Lady Mary The Story Keeper by Lucy WorsleyAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[My LadyThe Butcher's Choosing Daughter by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisVictoria Glendinning]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starThe Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield Longridge -->
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In eighteenth century London, sisters FitzgeraldAs the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, Constance and Verity four people are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - explored in a tale of love and charged with protecting friendship. Henri, fulfilling a mysterious child. Fast forward family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to the London align his beliefs with those of 2015his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the sisters war rages, these men are still waiting - tested like never before, with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far awaytrust, a hidden pool grants loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces all around them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging [[Silence in the absence of death. [[The Parentations Desert by Kate MayfieldDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[MunichSix Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Man Who Said No! Haunted Queen by David LawsAlison Weir]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicWhen it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, you know – popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a full onescheming marriage-line wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in a ''Beyond the Fringeking'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitlers eyes. I then proceeded to prove it was Others view her as a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and immediately bursting itstability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot airPerhaps both sides are true, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayextent. CertainlyIn ''The Haunted Queen, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with '' the Nazis, and this third book opens with in the first-person reportage of one such man''Six Tudor Queens'' series, keen author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving bones of a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick Queen haunted by the last, barest threads shadow of the story up and see just what did happen to hima formidable predecessor. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[MunichSix Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Man Who Said No! Haunted Queen by David LawsAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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Unnthor Reginsson is It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the uncrowned king end of the valley; retired Viking farmer Aztec Empire and rumoured owner of the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a large hoard decent man, particularly by the standards of goldthe time. He is gathering was the finest marksman with his clanharquebus on the force, a grand reunion after ten years but at the age of absencetwenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. It is time for strengthening family bonds He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, feasting, telling tall tales he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and remembering shared historytorture. [[Kin In Gold's Name by Snorri KristjanssonMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks The Industry of Human Happiness by Elizabeth ChadwickJames Hall]]===
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''Templar SilksThe Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a great example of historical fiction done wellnovel about music. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time is about human beings being able to find music and magic in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death simplest of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185places. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in Max and his life for lack younger cousin have realised their dream of research. In this book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his lifeopening a gramophone company. Her main problemHowever, as she acknowledges at the end of the book, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshaltheir ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's time in Jerusalemunderworld. We know when They will ascend broken and why he went, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the lesstheir lives changed forever. [[Templar Silks The Industry of Human Happiness by Elizabeth ChadwickJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Spirit Photographer by Mitchell & MitchellJon Michael Varese]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image:4starof the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Historical FictionFull Review]]
''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is to return to the throne as Charles II of England. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, is returning home to her family's farmhouse, excited at the prospect of a new King. She arrives home, however, to find her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be found. [[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'The Baghdad Clock', Douglass' is s memoir of his life as a tale of two friends growing up during slave, will be accompanying the first and second Iraqi warfamous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a young girl charismatic figure and her neighbourhooda gifted orator. The novel introduces us to But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the various characters surrounding beginnings of the protagonist. They are full horrors of life the potato famine and meets and yet never seem to add anything to befriends the central narrative. Rawifamous Irish nationalist, it would seem, has a problem with telling a storyDaniel O'Connell. [[The Baghdad Clock Precept: A Novel by Shahad Al RawiMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Katherine ClementsDaniel Peltz]]===
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Maybe youWhen we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on re in the old coffin path that winds from the village to company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the moor topMuseo di Santa Maria, which is what the villagers only speak ruins of it in hushed tones the Chiesa - a chapel - of how it's have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a foreboding place filled renaissance fresco with evila history which grabs the attention of young and old. Mercy Booth has lived Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there since birth, and she's always loved more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the grand house chapel some six hundred years ago and its isolation, but a recurrence one of whose descendants is the director of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretsmuseum. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Katherine ClementsDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded Lady Mary by Sheila LlewellynLucy Worsley]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his return in 1946divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, he finds a return and Henry's subsequent marriage to civilian life quite beyond him andJane Seymour, after which finally produces the much longed for birth of a brawlmale heir. This time, the story is sent to a military psychiatric hospitaltold through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. There, he Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomyfather under the influence of the Boleyn faction. ''Walking Wounded'' Lady Mary follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences her through these awful years and find a place you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in a world moving on from WWIIthe middle of these tumultuous events. [[Walking Wounded Lady Mary by Sheila LlewellynLucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz My Lady's Choosing by Heather MorrisKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
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SoYou are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, you arrive penniless and in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see Regency era London the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt race is on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to work diligently life as the Nazis demand, to the extent an eternal spinster. Along your journey you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you dare to stick your neck out from a life alone, and get fired by a job that means rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you're actually a Jew working in ll have to make the political wing of the SSultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the placewholesome, rugged and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for youcaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, under the eyes of all or the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatmad, bad and survived to tell the taleterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, but he also managed to do something even more daringwerewolves, long lost lovers and unexpected – he dared ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the campbe an easy decision... [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz My Lady's Choosing by Heather MorrisKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]
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