Writing historical fiction takes a certain amount of chutzpah. One has to take on nitpickers who will point out that this wasn’t in fashion at that time or that hadn’t been discovered yet. One also has to create room for characters in written history without turning them into Forrest Gump. The rewar...
The story starts with the escape of a young child from prison. It continues with the tale of a guttersnipe in London who turns out to be the grandchild of Graineuaile. Sent to Ireland to find the treasure of the O'Flaherty's. It's a story of Ireland in Elizabethan times and the mistakes being mad...
Henry II is so charming, better than Peter O'Toole.
can't wait to read the other two
Wow, Constance what a recommendation! The writing is sooooo good.
http://shelfandstuff.blogspot.com/2010/12/daughter-of-lir-by-diana-norman.html
It's 1664 and Puritan Penitence Hurd arrives from America armed with nothing but her faith, a bag filled with wampum and tobacco and the address of her long lost aunt. The address takes her to the Cock and Pie on Dog Street, a brothel with a Madam who goes by the moniker of "Her Ladyship". Told that...
It's 1765 and Boston is in an uproar at taxation without representation. Tavern owner Makepeace Burke "catches" an English lord drowning in the harbor and brings him to her home to care for his injuries. Sparks start flying between Makepeace and Sir Phillip Dapifer as she tries to find a way to get ...
Not great, but not that bad either. This book continues the story of Makepeace Burke and her family as the Revolutionary War begins. Her daughter is missing off a ship headed back to England and her journey to find Phillippa ends up dragging her into treatment of the American prisoners and smuggling...
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