Alyson Richman
Alyson Richman is the internationally bestselling author of the The Garden of Letters, The Lost Wife, The Last Van Gogh, The Rhythm of Memory (previously published as Swedish Tango) and The Mask Carver's Son. Her novels have been translated into eighteen languages and are known for their rich...
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Alyson Richman is the internationally bestselling author of the The Garden of Letters, The Lost Wife, The Last Van Gogh, The Rhythm of Memory (previously published as Swedish Tango) and The Mask Carver's Son. Her novels have been translated into eighteen languages and are known for their rich historical and artistic detail. She is currently working on her sixth novel about the French courtesan Marthe de Florian and the mystery surrounding her Paris apartment which remained locked for over seventy years.
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What a touching novel about embracing life. If you want a book to cuddle up, one that will work its way into your heart and leave you inspired, this is the novel for you. I need to comment on the love between Katya and Sasha. I believe that these two have been living with some type of stress durin...
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I was so moved at times in this story of a Jewish couple separated by war and the Nazi occupation of Prague and the terrible choices they were forced to make. Especially so when Josef desperately searches for his missing wife and longs for what he has lost with her, contrasting with [spoiler] the em...
I remember hearing about this apartment and how it had been shut and unopened for so long. I thought to myself, at the time, what a mystery. What could have happened to the people that lived there? I knew they could not have been Jewish and that apartment left alone. I was so excited when I was appr...
Like so many other books, The Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman is a story of two women across time. In this case, the book is a fictionalized story of an actual Paris apartment and two actual women - Marthe de Florian and her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron. As with many of these books, the story goes...
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