After a steady diet of mysteries and romantic suspense novels I thought I needed something totally different.I've had this book in my TBR pile for more than a year. I had picked it up because I loved Katherine and I wanted to read more books by Seton. Also this book has a theme that fascinates me...
Only for Die Hard Seton fans (and I am one). This book is the story of the Honeyman family of Marblehead, Massachusetts. It follows them from their original trip to Marblehead from England with the Winthrop ships in the 17th century to the early 20th century and their inn, The Hearth and Eagle. I...
Although I have read some of Anya Seton's novels before it was only now that I had the opportunity to read My Theodosia, her first published work. Reading about Theodosia Burr Alston made me realise that I seldom read books about American history and that my knowledge is indeed lacking in that de...
This historical fiction novel was a little difficult for me to get started just because of the many Spanish words in the beginning, but I'm about half-way through and it's interesting. I'll write a better review when I've read the whole book.Book finished. Great read. Here's my review:The Turquoi...
This is a fast-paced little novel, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The descriptions of the British countryside in AD 60, aswell as the depictions of the various British tribes, were excellent. Ms Seton is a master at creating context, and even in this shorter novel she effortlessly transports the rea...
On Monday she and Nicholas dined very early at one, picked up Mrs. Ellet at the exclusive boarding-house where the lady resided when she visited the city, continued up Broadway, crossed the Harlem River, and arrived at last upon the Kingsbridge Road. The day was exceedingly hot, typical of this s...
Young Charles Radcliffe heard it as he rode down the hill from Dilston Castle towards the Devil Water. Those wild despairing sobs came only from a kitchen wench whose lover -- a scurvy Hexham beggar -- had four days since stolen a cow from the Dilston byre. The rogue had soon been caught with the...
Cunningham. She found that the memory of her hour with Calise had lost all its magic. The atmosphere of singular purity in that orderly room, her own involuntary frankness, and Calise’s talk of God and content and mountain flowers, all seemed slightly ridiculous in retrospect. Perhaps this was in...
Andrew at Bordeaux, which was now the Duke's royal palace. Two of the men were great lords of Guienne; one, Jean de Grailly, the powerful Captal of Buch, and the other, Sir Guichard D'Angle, who owned vast tracts in Saintonge and Angouleme. They were both tirelessly loyal to their English overlor...