I got this book as a free book from Amazon Prime and I really enjoyed the story. I didn't know what to expect and initially I did not even know that it was a translated foreign novel. While I cannot evaluate Durst-Benning's writing style, the translator did a fabulous job and I really felt comple...
Excellent book! Well written and well-plotted, the author weaves an enchanting tale of three sisters struggling to stay together and be self-sufficient in a man's world. Like most sisters, they quarrel and have their differences, but their love and support for one another never wavers. Woven into...
This review also appears on my blog, Reading Rachael.I think my expectations were just too high for this follow up to a book that I consider one of my all-time favorites, The Glassblower. A lot of the things that I really enjoyed about the first book in this series were noticeably missing from th...
We drank wine and chatted away and laughed.” Micheline Guenin sighed wistfully. “Claude tells such good stories. I could listen to him for hours.” A smile flickered on Isabelle’s face as she looked from the washbasin to her neighbor, who was leaning against the window. Micheline sounded like a yo...
Later that evening, she moved into her new house. She had plenty of dry wood, and she soon had a fire going in the fireplace so she could heat some water. In the pantry, she found various cleaning materials, rags, brooms, brushes, and sponges, and within an hour, had wiped down all the countertop...