Publisher: Penguin

Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s The Grand Sophy

Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s The Grand Sophy

When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophy with his sister, Lady Ombersley, in Berkeley Square. But Sophy’s cousins are in a sad state, and she’s arrived just in time to save them all. But she hadn’t reckoned with Charles Rivenhall, the Ombersleys’ heir, who is very unappreciative of her efforts.

Posted October 8, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 1 Comment

Book Review: Joanne Proulx’s Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet

Book Review: Joanne Proulx’s Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet

After freakishly foretelling the death of a friend, Luke Hunter becomes big news in Stokum, his rank little pinprick of a hometown. Terrified, but pretending not to be, Luke holds everyone—the local media, his buddy Fang, the Polish widow next door—at arm’s length as he lurches through a personal minefield studded with previously unconsidered existential ponderings, Christian fundamentalists, a missing teen’s frantic mother, and a dream girl who isn’t his.

Posted September 29, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 1 Comment