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{{newreview|author=Rachel Billington|title=Glory|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Sylvia Fitzpaine comes from a titled family with all the advantages of class that the aristocracy can offer in 1915. These are grossly troubled times though, with men including her father the Brigadier General and her fiancé Arthur away at war. The Brigadier General seems safe at the moment in Cairo but Arthur has been sent into the thick of it. He sits in a ship awaiting embarkation just off the coast of a little known Turkish region, the very name of which will one day summon images of terror and ill <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-thought-out tactics. Arthur is on his way to Gallipoli.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409146235</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth FremantleTananarive Due|title=Watch the LadyThe Reformatory

|summary=Queen Elizabeth I is in her autumnal years and becoming increasingly preGracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-occupied with fear of potential plots and coups catching up with her – and perhaps justifiably so. This old Robbie Stephens Jr is how young Penelope Devereux finds Her Majesty (Penelope's godmother) on Penelope's acceptance sentenced to six months at courtthe Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a dangerous time to be a royal maid, especially in young Miss Devereux's case place with a banished mother, brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a step-father who is one chamber of Elizabeth's favourites and horrors, haunted by the realisation boys that the girl has been placed have died there . In order to spy for survive the family. However school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the Devereux interests will be served even if help of the game that Penelope plays is a fatal oneschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071817710X</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LoupasKatherine Howe|title=The Red Lily CrownA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Florence 1574: Chiara Nerini only approaches Francesco de' Medici Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to sell him her late father's alchemical equipment. She and her live with a family are starving who run an inn, and being made to work there from a sale would mean survivalyoung age. However When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the soon town, she decides to be Emperor has other ideas go and watch. Enthralled and abducts Chiara to become his assistant horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the quest hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to find sea, dressing as a boy and joining the Philosophernotorious Ned Low's Stonepirate ship as a cabin boy. If he She soon finds it she will go free. If notherself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves... Best not think about that option!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099571536</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosemary GoringSarah Marsh|title=Dacre's War|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1523, ten years after the Battle of Flodden and the death if James IV of Scotland. Henry VIII has decided on a scorched earth policy and sends agents over the borders to burn Scottish towns and plunder their churches and monasteries to fund his coffers. One such agent is Thomas, Baron Dacre, Keeper of Carlisle and, ironically, friend A Sign of the dead Scottish ruler. While working for the English crown Dacre also has his own private war to fight. Clan chief Adam Crozier hears that Dacre ordered Adam's father's murder and wants his revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973112</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eve Makis|title=The Spice Box LettersHer Own|rating=43.5

|summary=Katerina's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her and her mother a journal in Armenian and hearing. Suddenly plunged into a spice box full world of mysterious letterssilence, everything about her life changes. They're special to them both because they're Living in a time when the legacy use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a much loved relative school where she is taught to lip read, but totally indecipherable to the monolingually English pairphysically restrained from signing. However a holiday abroad to get over a recent break From here, she ends up brings in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a random encounter for Katerinasystem called Visible Speech. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets At the key to her grandmother's secret pastsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=MRC KasasianClaire North|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=While the best personal detective in the known Victorian world (in his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away on a case, his ward March is left to her own devices. As luck would have it, one of those devices is an invitation to meet a previously unknown relative. March visits Saturn Villa with a sense House of curiosity and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea is one she will never forget. Let's hope she knows a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cesca Major|title=The Silent HoursOdysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Adeline is an enigma''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. She has lived in a nunnery ever since In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her rescuehusband, several years agowho sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. She cannot speak, nor can As ever she remember much about her previous liferemains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. She tries desperately to piece together Having survived – politically and physical – the ephemeral fragments chaotic storm that come Clytemnestra brought to her in fitful dreams. Something has taken everything awayIthaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. Something so powerful One that it has rendered her speechlessshatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782395687</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Louisa TregerB0C7J9D21B|title= The Lodger|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A writer writing about writers writing. What more could a reader, a book reviewer, a tentative writer and lover of words want from a book? Not forgetting the setting – England, early 1900s, clear class divisions and social expectations – and the characters – fascinating, colourful, and above all, real. This book has everything I look for Captive in a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250051932</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Last Confession of Thomas HawkinsA J Lewis|rating=4.5

|summary=A few months after When we left Tom in the 1720s we return to find him living in sin first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and love with Kittyhe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Or Idyllic as this might sound, it would be sin if they ever get round to the bed bit's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Just as he promised underworld gang leader James FleetHe's not been short of mothers, Tom has taken though - but for someone of his background in Jameslate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it' son Sam s difficult to train him in obtain decent employment. The stint working with the ways preparation of being a gentlemananchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. All seems to be going well in that department until Tom receives Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a visit from an old enemy and successful business as a brush with the country's ultimate powerguide for visitors. Then both collide to create fear and an offer that Tom isn't able to refuse, no matter how hard he triesHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Martine BaileyEssie Fox|title= The Penny Heart|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=After living a life of crime in order to scrape by, Mary Jebb is spared from the gallows – and banished to Australia. Before leaving for the penal colony of Botany Bay, she sends two engraved penny heart tokens to key players in her world. One of these takes us to Delafosse Hall, where Mary’s story meets that of shy artist Grace Moore – and yet more confidence tricks begin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769855</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amitav Ghosh|title=Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy 3)Fascination

|summary=1839 and the repercussions of the sinking of the Ibis and the Chinese clampdown on opium smuggling go on. Now widowed The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the marine disaster, Shireen Modhi is given an opportunity Second World War) which has often led to discover her late husbandmore than a few writers mishandling it. There's legacy although it means journeying alone from India to China. Former sailor Zachary Reid finds life landside to be a little complicated when he becomes such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we'mystery' (craftsman) attached ve come to associate with it are familiar to the Indian home point of a British opium traderbeing cliched, despite its fringe benefitshackneyed even. East India Company sepoy officer Kesri Singh All this is also a little unsettled, especially when he discovers he must prepare for a war simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, in some way or other, will affect them allsomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719569001</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean RavencourtNicole Jarvis|title=A Lover's PinchPortrait in Shadow

|summary=Hettie (Henriette ''I want all of Florence to be formal) has grown up know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in straitened timeswhich her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Her mother was a former mistress But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of Charles IX but now Henri IV is on the throne. A different king means different favourites and Hettie’s family healing magics that through paintings have the power to live on protect the memory city and favours of othersits citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. However Hettie To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has attracted no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage|author=Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is the attention path of Henri which least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is enough in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to give her mother ideassave the day and rescue what little remains. She’s not What no-one expected was that one of the only one though: King’s mistress Gabrielle d’Estrees also has plans for Knights of the teenage girl. Hettie is definitely embarking on an adventure but Round Table would answer the twists it takes are unforeseen by anyone and dangerous to allcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00UEL4XLW</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerG K Holloway|title=Sophie and In the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceShadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=''Sophie We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowlesday of William of Normandy's ''The French Lieutenantcoronation as King of England. William's Woman'', position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a postmodern blending of history, fiction, and metafictional commentarycoronation is important. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot's German publishers, but the accident of their surname matching the author's makes them her clever stand-inAnd William is right to worry. As While the novel opens in 1872previous king, Harold, the venerable English author is exploring Homburg dead and Berlin in the company likelihood of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novelmore pitched battles is over, ''Middlemarch'', into German translation. Max, a young cad fond the rebels are stirring and much of casinos and brothels, has two tasks: ensuring Eliot's loyalty the country does not wish to their publishing house, and securing Countess Sophie von Hahn's hand in marriagerecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Beatty3949666079|title=DarklingNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=24.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Brilliana Harley ''This is a seventeenth century Puritan, and story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a Roundhead young girl living in a county of Puritanshunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Driven to defend both her beliefs and home in Climate change is occurring, the front Sea of total aggression, Brilliana must take charge Grass encroaches further and defend her further into Maya's forest home, all the while consumed with longing for an absent husband. She soon comes under a brutal and unrelenting siege, food is becoming more and will struggle more scarce. What to survive. In do? Can the present day, Mia Morgan is researching law givers in the life federation of Brilliana Harley, hoping villages muster peaceful ways to finish a book begun by her late ex-lover. As she struggles to come to term with her griefcope? Can the Traveller, and to rebuild a life from what she has leftspiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, Mia finds her life becoming irrevocably entwined with that of the tragic Brilliana. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958414X</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Kane1529125898|title=Eagles at WarGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=45

|summary=War, what is ''If it good were not for? Looking the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the ever buoyant historic fiction genre it would appear that war is great for selling booksposition of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. This is especially the She had no experience of teaching but this was a case with the Romans; there are more books about Ancient Roman battles than there were mad Caesarsof necessity. One Until the death of the leading names in the historic fiction genre is Ben Kane her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and when he releases was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the first book in a new series fans of the genre take noticehousehold. When her mother died, but her father cast her off and would they be right have nothing more to do so?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094043</amazonuk>with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeMelissa Fu |title=The Throwaway ChildrenPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=They seemed like I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a perfect little family unit: Mavis and her two young daughters, Rita and Rosieshort chapter entitled ''Origins''. But widowed Mavis needed a man in her life and violent bully Jimmy was Unfortunately it is the only too happy to enjoy the perks truly poetic part of such a relationship, even if it meant putting up with her troublesome childrenbook that I expected more from. When Mavis finds herself pregnant with JimmyCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's baby, he agrees to marry her on one condition: perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the girls have to go. Distraught Mavis chooses her man over her childrenwar with Japan, setting in motion a tragic chain of events that leads to the girls being sent to an orphanage thousands of miles away in Australiayoung mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. “The Throwaway Children” The story follows the lives of Rita them on their journey across China, and Rosie as they struggle in Renshu's case eventually to make sense of this new, unfamiliar worldAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970018</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzannah Dunn1916072038|title=The Lady of MisruleHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=Elizabeth Tilney volunteers to accompany Lady Jane Grey to We meet part of the Tower of LondonTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Elizabeth would be attendant Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the young deposed Protestant queen while Jane's husband Guildford Dudley is kept house in an adjacent towerthe hollow. Her feelings for him The two women are less than devotional whereas he still feels a responsibility towards her, mixed angry with his fear each other and anger at what has gone before Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and what may lie ahead. However Jane weaknesses: ''She is treated well by practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the new Queen Mary despite the difference in the new and old queensdeplorable truth'' faiths. Does Jane have anything  Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to fear? Spending her time with Jane do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and as unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a messenger to Guildfordchild and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, Elizabeth hopes not but she hears rumoursleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704668</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SimmonsAnnabel Abbs|title=The Fifth HeartLanguage of Food|rating=45

|summary=On Eliza Acton is a rainy night in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridge, about poet who has never had the slightest inclination to end it allboil an egg. Next to him sidles Sherlock HolmesWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, about to do the same. Instead of jumpingshe recruits Ann Kirby, Holmes drags James off for a drink and decides that they will go to America to solve local woman with a 17-year-old murder casetroubled home life. The supposed victimTogether, they test, socialite Clover Adamscraft, is believed to have committed suicide but that doesn't deter Sherlock. He's offrefine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, Henry James is going with him reinventing the recipe book and that's that!changing the face of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751560952</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine ClementsFreya Marske|title=The Silvered HeartA Marvellous Light|rating=5 4

|summary= Katherine Ferrers Robin Blyth is nudged into a young orphan – growing up job in the turbulent period of the English Civil WarService, she has little choice but much to marry for the sake of her family, his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and to trust her considerable inheritance into learns that the care streets of her husbandLondon are threaded with magic. As the war comes Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to an endswallow him, and those who supported Robin follows Edwin to the losing King are punished severelycountryside, Katherine finds herself where the hedgegrows bristle with no money, few friends, incantations and a house that has become a prisonthe people shimmer with power. Wishing for a life away from her cold, oft absent husband, Katherine meets There they uncover a man who changes her life, with Katherine choosing to join him in a life sinister plot that provides her with threatens the excitement she craves – and yet may prove lives of all too dangerous…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204247</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lydia Syson|title=Liberty's Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paris magicians in the uneasy and violent months between March and May 1871 is an inspired setting for this tense, dramatic novel. ''Liberty's Fire'' is Lydia Syson's third work of fiction and certainly ensures that she will not be stereotyped into any single historical periodBritish Isles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> 1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura MadeleineB09F4CTKJR|title=The Confectioner's TaleFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Petra is researching It's the life later stages of late historian, author, critic World War I and greatly missed grandfather JG Stevenson when she should really be writing a dissertation for her doctoratethe United States has just entered the conflict. While looking through his belongings she comes across Petrol Petronus is a photo taken in Paris at young American who has signed up and joined the turn of 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the 20th century and an intriguing note first US Aero Squadron to be trained in his handwriting. Petra has never consciously realised that Grandpa Jim (as he was Canada, the first to her) had been be attached to France so the revelation spurs her on against all odds, an unscrupulous competitor RAF and academic pressure. Gradually the search reveals a romance and notorious scandal; first to be sent into the sort of scandal would lead a man skies to regret it for fight the rest of his lifeGermans in active combat. Meanwhile in 1909But before that can happen, Guillaume du Frere moves Petrol has to France from master flying the provinces in order to escape poverty and changes his life completely, although not in the way he'd expectednotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160725</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally WraggChristophe Medler|title=The Angel and the SwordMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=3.54

|summary=We met Set against the people from Loxley New Hall in [[Loxley by Sally Wragg|Loxley]] but we've moved on quite a few years as we rejoin them for the story backdrop of ''The Angel and the Sword''. HarryEnglish Civil War, eleventh Duke of Loxley a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is dead and the title has been inherited discovered by his daughter - she's a lucky girl as that doesn't happen too often Sir Robert Douse in the world summer of Debrett's1642. She's only in her mid teensAs a loyal servant of the King, but Katherineand Head of the Secret Service, her grandmother it is uneasy about her friendship with Bill, a local boy. She was very sniffy when her son married Bronwyn, Robert's duty to uncover the daughter details of a doctor the plan and only really came around follow the clues to the idea when Bron made a good fist uncover one of running the estate when the Duke went off to most guarded secrets in history—especially since the trenches with every able-bodied man on plot could affect the estateKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719814308</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Erskine1471187179|title= The Darkest HourA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary= In Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the summer of 19401930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, at produce children and spend the start rest of the Battle Britain, Evie Lucas has two things on her minddays looking after her husband and their home. She paints pictures of the war Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she has fallen in love with Tony, want to continue working as a young pilotsecretary.Seventy years later As a result of a chance meeting, Lucyshe finds herself drawn into espionage, an art historian, begins working for the secret service and effectively living a study into Evie’s double life- attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Lucy is recently widowed Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and hopes to find solace in the engrossing project. Instead, friends she finds secrets that people have been has made - and likes - whilst working hard to protect for over half a century – and her discoveries have a profound impact on her own lifethe Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513151</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessie BurtonAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The MiniaturistKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''The Miniaturist'' Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is a meticulously researched wonder why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of a bookit. Burton, her imagination fired by I found things to potentially delight me each time – a trip to weird section in the Rijksmuseummiddle on darker stock paper, where she viewed a chapter whose number was in the wealthy Amsterdammer merchant’s wife Petronella Oortman’s elaborate 1686 cabinet dolls' house20, revels in creating her fictional world. She imbues it with authentic details including descriptions of actual rooms000s, pieces of commissioned art, a parrot’s cage, food made from waxletters used as narrative form, furniture made to exact scale and miniature puppetsso on. She is a word smith, painting a rich canvas of imagery and emotions for It intrigued with the reader. Her ‘Nella’ Oortman is subterranean voice a tentative rural bride man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of 18 embarking on a union with an olderit mentioned, learned man of languages who has a warehouse full of strange curiositiestoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447250931</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrea Chapin|title=The Tutor| But you've seen the star rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Katherine de L'Isle that comes to live with her uncle Sir Edward's family at Lufanwal Hall when she's widowed after only a year of marriage. A fine home and the bosom of the family should be a place of safety but not in this case. This is 1590 in Queen Elizabeth's protestant England review, and Katherine's family are Roman Catholics; something they thought can tell that if love was a secret till their priest is found murdered on their land. Life must go on though. The children of the household are raised and educated almost on the periphery of Katherine's vision until she meets their tutorthese pages, a certain Midlands' glove maker's son called William Shakespeareit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024196816X</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fannie FlaggChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The All-Girl Filling Station's Last ReunionBlack Kids

|genre=Women's FictionTeens |summary=2005 Alabama: Sookie Earle awakes one morning a 59 year old happily married female Methodist with American roots that go way back in history and a wonderfully steadfast dentist husband. However before she goes to bed that night all that (apart from Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the married and female bits) will change. 1940s Wisconsin: a Polish immigrant family lose their men to wartime conscription and so have to make a go backdrop of their family gas station alone. Fritzi and her sisters rise to the challenge and then take on another more dangerous adventure1992 Los Angeles riots, taking a reaction to the skies absolution of four police officers for the war effort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593149</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Williams|title=The Storms of War|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=England - 1914. The de Witt family live in Stoneythorpe Hallbeating a black man, Rodney King, an English manor that allows them nearly to lead lives of relative luxurydeath. Behind Told from the ornate doors and heavy drapes perspective of the house thoughAshley Bennett, things are less than ideal - the approaching shadow novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of war makes things increasingly difficult for German born Rudolfrace, and Verena struggles to find a woman finding her role in both the home voice and society. With their sons studying, one daughter marrying and one fast growing up, war will change all that these people know, and force them to either adapt, or suffer untold consequencesembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409144887</amazonuk>1471188191