The Queen’s Fool shows the plotting, spying, and intrigue that lay at the heart of the court of Queen Mary of England, as seen through the eyes of a woman who was an outsider. If you like that sort of thing – as I do – you really should pick it up. It’s the kind…
Slow Hands is the debut novel of playwright Lynne Kaufman, whose uncluttered prose and unique voice make her a welcome addition to contemporary women’s fiction. Sara Russack acts as narrator; she is a marriage and family counselor with an established practice in San Francisco and specializes in women’s issues. Sara is at an impasse with…
When I was given the chance to review the new Sue Margolis book, I jumped at it. I’m not a big reader of chick lit, but who could resist a title like Apocalipstick? While the rest of the book, it turns out, is as clever as the title, it clearly can’t be taken seriously, since…
Being a romance reader in the current publishing climate is not easy. Publishers, like television execs, seem to figure if something is a success then similar books will also be successful. Thus they keep publishing those same things, over and over and over. The thing in this particular case is the Regency-set historical and lately…
I have been glomming Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel for a while. The results have been quite successful, but locating her full-length historicals as written under her real name has been difficult. I searched longest for A Bed of Spices, the book I had been most eager to lay my hands on, since it is one of…
The protagonist of Neurotica is British, Jewish, and in her late 30’s. As someone who fulfills two of those three categories, perhaps this story struck more of a chord with me than it would for those who are not familiar with Jewish mothers or the Bay City Rollers. While I didn’t catch all of the…