A historical novel about a wealthy Southern woman who goes to the Oregon territory in search of her fiance, but not everything goes according to plan. 1950. Continue reading
The Incomplete Amorist – Edith Nesbit
A novel about a young, naive woman who falls for a rakish artist, but fate and the woman’s family intervene to keep the two apart. 1906. Continue reading
The Corner Shop – Elizabeth Cadell
A novel about a woman who helps a grumbling professor catalogue his late mother’s possessions, and in doing so manages to change the trajectory of her own life. 1966. Continue reading
Random Harvest – James Hilton
A novel about a man who wakes up one day in 1919 and finds he can’t remember anything about the last three years of his life. 1941. Continue reading
Still Glides the Stream – D. E. Stevenson
A novel about a man who retires from the military and returns home to Scotland, where the wartime death of his best friend and neighbor is still strongly felt. 1959. Continue reading
Blake’s Reach – Catherine Gaskin
A Regency historical novel about a young woman who sets out to restore her family’s crumbling coastal estate, and in the process must throw her lot in with smugglers. 1958. Continue reading
Favours (A Five Year Sentence) – Bernice Rubens
A novel about a woman who intends to literally end her life after retiring, but instead finds herself locked into an obligation of pleasure fulfillment. 1978. Continue reading
The Vet’s Daughter – Barbara Comyns
A novel about a young woman who has a desperately ill mother, a violent father, and yet in the midst of never-ending hardship possesses a secret of her own. 1959. Continue reading
Come Out of the Kitchen! – Alice Duer Miller
A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the particularly pretty cook. 1916.Continue reading
Shadow of a Lady – Jane Aiken Hodge
A historical novel about a woman who is pressed into marrying a wealthy but potentially dangerous man, then finds herself trapped in Naples during the early Napoleonic wars. 1973. Continue reading