This book focuses on a young woman who lost her mother and sister to the tragedy of the Titanic. She is trying to deal with the loss and other loses in her life, as well as family members who are complicated. There are times you want to slap her if you could in response to a 21st century reader...
I own a very old house in Salem with its own connection to the witch trials of 1692, so the description of this book jumped right out at me, but then I read some of the poorer reviews and nearly passed it over, I am so glad I chose to ignore them. If you like books that are about real people, no...
I wanted to like this book, and it was an easy enough read, but what could have been an exciting and thought provoking exploration of Salem witches was very much let down by its narrator, who was by turns patronising and doltish. Her revelations as she delves deeper into her family's history were...
The library at St. Joan’s was a deep stone cavern, eerily narrow and tall, with walls of books leaning up into the dimness overhead. The only light came from a distant clerestory of leaded Gothic windows tucked under the wooden beams holding up the roof and the green glass lamps dotting the woode...
I breathe as I blunder down the front steps of our town house and flop into the street. A carriage rattles by, and I throw myself out of its way. The horse, a bay mare with a grizzled muzzle, rolls its eye at me as it trots past. I round the corner from First to the Bowery...
She was repeatedly tried for witchcraft and ultimately imprisoned, though not put to death. Cole spent a good portion of her life in jail in Boston. Her repeated appearances in the Essex County court records paint a portrait of a quarrelsome woman whose life took a precipitous turn for the worse ...