The Lavender Garden
A Novel by Lucinda Riley 1998 – Emilie de La Martinières grew up alone. A poor rich girl ignored by her socialite mother all her life. Having lost her beloved father when she was only fourteen, Emilie feels distant from her family’s history and her inheritance. 1944 – Constance Carruthers is a strong smart woman […]
Imperfect Bliss
Hardcover, 304 pages Published July 3rd 2012 by Atria Books Summary from Goodreads Reality TV— Jane Austen Style Meet the Harcourts of Chevy Chase, Maryland. A respectable middle-class, middle age, mixed-race couple, Harold and Forsythia, has four eminently marriageable daughters—or so their mother believes. Forsythia named her girls after Windsor royals in the hopes that […]