Delightful read – Lin Shui has been murdered but is not quite ready to die so she inhabits Alice Safford’s body – Alice has a very troubled family – selfish, mean mom, doting, oblivious dad, two messed sisters and a messed brother. They are British ex-pats living in Hong Kong … enough suspense to keep […]

I read her first novel, The Historians, and loved it but I think I loved this one even more. All about an artist’s (Robert Oliver) obsession and the mystery that lies behind it. Told in parts by his psychiatrist, Andrew Marlow, an elusive woman from the late 1800’s and the two women who have figured […]

This is a wonderful book – a bit slow to begin with so don’t give up! In 70 C.E. four Jewish women have taken refuge on Masada – a mountain upon which King Herod (the whacko!) built a palace within a fortress deemed to be impregnable. Nine hundred Jews from all over Judea have fled […]

I really liked this one – the virgin cure is a turn of the century belief that if a “gentleman” afflicted by syphillis bedded (sp?) a young virgin his disease would be cured. The stories told from the point of view of a 13 year-old girl who has been abandoned to the streets of London […]

I know – I’m reading like crazy – didn’t realize how spent I was until the couch beckoned me and bid me to remain a while. Regina O’Melveney is a poet and the novel has that quality of language about it that causes one to reflect on life … “Maybe neither of them could overcome […]