When I first read the description of this story I had the smarts not to read anyone else's review. I enjoyed what I read beforehand and I didn't want other people to tarnish my opinion. I think if I had read someone's less-than-five-star review, I would not have considered reading the book. An...
As far as epic stories go, this story of Versailles at its height of glory was such a great read. Starting with Versailles as nothing more than a hunting lodge, being built and expanded, we come to be attached with the first daughter, Marguerite. Her life unfolds with love and tragedy, followed...
Rosalind Laker is fast becoming one of my favorite historical fiction authors. I have also read her novel The House by the Fjord and I just started two others, To Dream of Snowand This Shining Land.The Venetian Mask tells the story of two friends, Marietta and Elena, who grow up together in the O...
Silver Touch by Rosalind LakerFollow the life of a woman, Ester who loses her parents and she has to go live with a relative who run a tavern and she learns the trade.She meets up with a married man, John Bateman and ends up having his child. They move and live together. His trade is a silversmit...
synopsis:marguerite is a fine seamstress and asked to travel to russia with others of her choosing to work on gowns for the imperial court. marguerite leaves because her husband/fiance? has been killed, and there is nothing keeping her in france. once in russia, she meets an art dealer, simon and...
New World, New Love is the story of Louise de Vailly, a refugee from the French Revolution, as she arrives in New York with her sister Delphine. Although recently widowed, her marriage had not been a happy one and Louise is ready to strike out on her own and establish her independence, but self-c...
With the coming of the liberation of Norway from the Nazi occupation there was a fragile moment when the Nazi commandant had to decide whether to fight on or surrender to the Allies. As with the rest of the Norwegian population, the heroine's whole future and that of the man she loves depend upon...
It was not only in the evenings when company had gathered, but now and again he was in full song or whistling musically as he went about the house. He and Robert were coming and going all the time, being invited to the homes of friends, meeting them in alehouses, making preparations for journeyin...
Learning came easily to her. Although she was sometimes in trouble through getting into one scrape or another, it was never for anything very serious and after some minor punishment was duly forgotten. Although she got on well with most of her fellow pupils it was an English girl, fluent in Frenc...
Once, to Anna’s excitement, she spotted an elk trotting along not far from the track. ‘There’s plenty of them around,’ Molly said, being well used to sightings. ‘But, as you will know, there are no reindeer this far south.’ Her eyes twinkled. ‘Do you remember how during the war some of the Norweg...
She had been told that a lady there was in urgent need of a travelling companion willing to stay on as house-help when the destination was reached. It sounded promising, and Lisa was full of hope as she gave her name at the reception desk. On this July day she had been ten months at Madame Ruby’s...