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The Summer Country
The Summer Country: A Novel
by Lauren Willig
The Summer Country - review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (6/5/2019)
A run-down sugar plantation was the last thing Emily thought her uncle would leave to her, but Emily was thrilled about it even though her cousin wasn't.

Emily, her cousin, and his wife traveled to Barbados to meet a few people and to see the plantation.

We meet the family …more
Letters from Paris
Letters from Paris
by Juliet Blackwell
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (5/7/2019)
I fell in love with LETTERS FROM PARIS the minute Claire walked into the warmth of her childhood home as she returned to take care of her dying grandmother.

Claire had left Louisiana right after college for a high-paying job in Chicago, but returned because her grandmother …more
The Aviator's Wife
The Aviator's Wife
by Melanie Benjamin
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (4/21/2019)
Anne Morrow the quiet, unassuming daughter. Anne Morrow the shy sister of Elisabeth Morrow who hid in Elisabeth's shadow. Anne Morrow the woman no one thought would marry before her beautiful sister, Elisabeth married. Anne Morrow.....who did marry and who married a famous …more
The Secrets of Midwives
The Secrets of Midwives
by Sally Hepworth
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (4/20/2019)
Three women, three generations, common interests, but mostly secrets.

Floss, Grace, and Neva are grandmother, mother, and daughter. They all are midwives, and they have secrets that they have held a short time, secrets they have held for their entire lives, and most …more
The Things We Keep
The Things We Keep
by Sally Hepworth
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (4/20/2019)
A thirty-eight year old with early stages of Alzheimer's disease and in an assisted living facility...very difficult for Anna as well as her family.

Anna lived with her brother and his family once they found out she couldn't live alone, but then it got to the point where she …more
The Mother-in-Law
The Mother-in-Law
by Sally Hepworth
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (4/20/2019)
A mother-in-law who didn't like you from the second she met you.

A mother-in-law who had a secret from her youth.

A mother-in-law who loved her charity more than she loved her kids, and told them they just can't have things given to them.

A mother-in-law who disinherited her …more
The Night Before
The Night Before
by Wendy Walker
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (4/20/2019)
A murder that followed Laura from her youth, a breakup via a text message, and a blind date.

All of these things and more had Laura having a difficult time coping and made her decide to move home to live with her sister and her brother-in-law.

After a few months, Laura …more
All Is Not Forgotten
All Is Not Forgotten
by Wendy Walker
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (4/20/2019)
A small town, a perfect town, a town with secrets, and a town with the not so perfect residents they think they are.

The night Jenny Kramer is attacked is the night that the town gets turned upside down along with her fami?ly. Jenny's father is obsessed with finding her …more
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
by Robert Hillman
Eccentric characters (4/9/2019)
THE BOOKSHOP OF THE BROKENHEARTED moved along slowly but was an interesting read. We learned about Auzchwitz and the life Hannah lived after she was free, how it all affected Hannah and her moods, and how her intensity about love, Tom, and her life was based on those …more
The Women in the Castle
The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck
History and Friendship Among Women (4/3/2019)
Before, during, and after the war Marianne was there to support everyone even though she had lost everything except her castle and her children.

Marianne previously lived in a castle with her husband, Albrecht and her children before the Germans took it over. Her husband was …more
Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever
by Joshilyn Jackson
Edge-of-Your-Seat Tension (4/2/2019)
A secret from her past and someone who happens to show up that may ruin everything.

During their regular, monthly book club meeting a knock on the door brings a new member who as the evening wears on definitely isn't welcome.

Roux knows something about Amy and innocently …more
A Paris Apartment
A Paris Apartment
by Michelle Gable
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
Paris in the late 1800's? during the Belle Epoque?, antique furniture and paintings, and journals from an apartment's original inhabitant. All of these things made A PARIS APARTMENT a book that will keep you glued to the pages.

Who wouldn't want to go to Paris? April was an …more
I'll See You in Paris
I'll See You in Paris
by Michelle Gable
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
What was the intrigue and what was the secret about the book Annie always wanted to read but never did?

Why was her mother so evasive about that book?, The Missing Duchess,? and who was the Duchess of Marlborough?

Why did she and her mother really go to London?

Would the book …more
The Book of Summer
The Book of Summer
by Michelle Gable
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
A summer home filled with years of memories, a book filled with years of written memories, and a home that is eroding away and about to fall off the cliff.

The Cliff House, appropriately named, has been the summer home on Nantucket for the Young/Packard/Codman family for …more
Watching You
Watching You: A Novel
by Lisa Jewell
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
Just who is Tom Fitzwilliam? Does anyone really know?

To the outside world he is a handsome, popular, successful man, but is he really all that?

Strange things always happen in the neighborhoods where Tom lives, and Melville Heights is no exception.

There is spying in the …more
Bellman & Black
Bellman & Black
by Diane Setterfield
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
"Ivy and Mary was here."

Those words are the beginning, the ending, and the basis of NECESSARY LIES. Those five words go full circle in this incredible, haunting book.

You will be transported to another world as you read NECESSARY LIES. A world of poverty and illiteracy as …more
Necessary Lies
Necessary Lies
by Diane Chamberlain
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
"Ivy and Mary was here."

Those words are the beginning, the ending, and the basis of NECESSARY LIES. Those five words go full circle in this incredible, haunting book.

You will be transported to another world as you read NECESSARY LIES. A world of poverty and illiteracy as …more
Looking for Me
Looking for Me
by Beth Hoffman
Beautiful - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
We all have dreams...some are fulfilled, some are not. Teddi Overman knew she had a talent for refinishing antique furniture even though her mother told her there was no future in it. Her mother wanted her to be a secretary.

Teddi didn't want to be a secretary. Teddi pursued …more
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel
by Beth Hoffman
An All-Time Favorite - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
Flying dishes, prom gowns, red high-heeled shoes, embarrassing school days....what more could a child take.
Cee Cee Honeycutt lived with her parents who consisted of a mother who thought she missed out on life since she left her home town in Georgia to marry an older man …more
Room
Room: A Novel
by Emma Donoghue
Creative Thriller - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (3/29/2019)
What hold could Old Nick have over Ma that would make that room her world? Why didn't she just leave? Or maybe she wasn't able to leave?

Jack's fifth birthday definitely wouldn't be what a normal five-year-old would be delighted with, but Jack was happy to spend the day with …more

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