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I am usually wary of books everyone promises I will love but when my friend Susan told me to read This Book Made Me Think of You , I immedia...

Iris longs to be a reporter, and she got a job at a well-regarded newspaper and has a nice apartment in Knightsbridge but is stuck sketching...

Caroline Lash, a native Manhattanite who works in publishing, is burnt out at 28 and eager to get away from the shadow of her prima donna mo...

After inheriting a big house in the country from an uncle but no accompanying funds, Roger and his wife, Ruth, decided to turn it into an ex...

Frances Field knows she was lucky to be taken in by an uncle and aunt when she was orphaned at three but whatever she owes them has been amp...

Given the challenges newspapers have experienced, investigative reporter Conley Hawkins is thrilled to have been offered a prestigious job i...

In this very dark novel by Irish writer John Boyne, four novellas are connected through the trauma that each character experienced; some are...

Henry Eliot isn’t sure exactly how he became engaged to the beautiful and autocratic Marly Stonor, daughter of Sir Bertram Stonor, the CEO o...

Set in 1990,  The Road to Dalton  takes place in a small, economically depressed town north of Bangor, Maine, focusing on a few interconnect...

Nell is worried about her friend, Barbie France, who has been very sick and is not getting better. When the doctor she works for accompanies...

This was a great choice for Dean Street December ! Ann Laventie is the youngest of three in an eccentric family in Sussex, beginning with a ...

This is an unusual novel told in letters, primarily from the perspective of Sybil Van Antwerp, a divorced grandmother in her 70s, who had a ...

Greenery Street is a gentle comedy of manners about an upper middle class British couple enjoying their first year of marriage on an idylli...

Last week, I participated in a focus group on “Financial Attitudes,” and spent an interesting two hours with a small group of women, all sin...

In this contemporary novel that includes elements of suspense, Nura Khan, a third-generation matchmaker who has grown her business to new he...

It’s not every book that starts with a heroine planning to commit suicide and manages to make the situation quite humorous - albeit dark hum...

This is one of 12 light-hearted novels that Noel Streatfeild wrote for adults under a pseudonym, and the only one I’ve read that wasn’t a r...

As the introduction by Elizabeth Crawford to this new edition points out, after serving as a Wren in WWII, Molly Clavering settled in Moffat...

Loretta Plansky is a tennis-playing retiree in Florida; she is comfortably off but misses her deceased husband. She has a demanding family: ...

In Testimony , Shreve’s fifteenth novel, a night of underage drinking at a boarding school in Vermont ends in disaster, resulting in a sex s...