Reading and Roaming
SUMMER READING How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry If you are a reader and a booklover, then this novel set in a small town in Cornwall should delight you. When her father Julius, bookshop owner extraordinaire, dies, his daughter Emilia inherits Nightingale Books. Emilia has lived in Hong Kong for some years and …
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SUMMER READING The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor This is the kind of historical novel that sweeps you up immediately and keeps you absorbed all the way through. Set in 1838 on the Irish coast and in1938 off Newport, Rhode Island, two young women become attached to, devoted, some might say, to their respective lighthouses. Grace Darling, …
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CONCERT NOTE Kudos to the Ladies Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was a talented and precocious composer and pianist. But, she was female, and as sister to her talented brother Felix, she was relegated to the back of the room. Their father declared that Felix would have the musical career and she would not. In her day, some of her …
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A NOVEL, A MYSTERY AND A MEMOIR Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict This historical novel is built around the premise that someone or some event must have triggered Andrew Carnegie’s transformation from merely a successful, rich, and somewhat ruthless businessman into the philanthropist and library founder he became. Clara Kelley is poor and young and sent …
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