Book Reviews

This is a book about family love and secrets, where guilt and madness creep within the pages and tragedy and hope entwine with each other. 

A pioneering and headstrong woman, a coal-choked New York city, and a harrowing Victorian asylum – what is not to love?

A historical fiction novel to touch the heart. 

A stunning piece of gothic historical literature that I cannot recommend enough.

A twisting, gothic, historical tale of love, betrayal and injustice, with a dash of murder too!

London in the eighteenth century was no place to be a poor young girl with high hopes.

I know Maud and Wake’s End will remain with me for a long time, and I will find myself back in the fen when I least expect it.

The Victorian Governess, by Katherine Hughes, gives a straight forward account of what life was really like for those women who floated uneasily on the border between servant and lady.

I have just finished The Victorian House by Judith Flanders. After writing five books set in the Victorian period, I felt my research needed topping up. Well, I couldn’t have started with a better book.

A beguiling, slow-paced YA novel about love and identity in 1960s England.