Books by Shirley Kennedy
Here, dear readers, is a short list of things you would be better off reading instead of Wagon Train Sisters: The back of a Mr. Bubble label. An outdated encyclopedia, cover to cover. A Bazooka Joe comic. And, last but not least, the pull tag on a pillow.
The novel starts promisingly enough. Sara ...
Living in the 1850s, whether in a city such as Boston, in a small community, or on a farm wasn’t a very pleasant proposition by today’s standards. Even worse was traveling in a covered wagon across the prairie with your worldly possessions, unsure of what you’d encounter or if you were prepare ...
I think I've found something new in Shirley Kennedy: a guilty-pleasure Regency author. Three Wishes for Miss Winthrop is like Pride and Prejudice meets The Young and the Restless. One minute everyone is behaving in normal, Regency-like ways, and the next minute raging hormones are circling like a sw ...
Lady Flora's Fantasy starts out promisingly enough. Flora is 22 and tired of the Marriage Mart. She vows to sit out the Season - until, that is, she meets the dashing Lord Dashwood and his friend Lord Lynd on a pre-season trip to Brighton. She gives only a passing glance to Lynd, but after five min ...
“Never love an Englishman” is the credo by which Evleen O’Fallon has been raised. Her mother’s second husband was an Englishman who ran through her mother’s fortune and then died, leaving the family destitute. Forced to sell everything and move to a barren cottage in County Clare, the fami ...
Shirley Kennedy's latest Regency Romance has a wonderfully authentic feel to it. It also effectively works a lot of the elements of Gothic romance into its Regency setting. Although its romance wasn't gripping, I did find The Selfless Sister hard to put down. Lucinda Lindley's fa ...
The Rebellious Twin is one of those books that’s best read on a lazy afternoon under the sun. Implausible, and as frothy as cappuccino, it melts away as fast as it’s finished, leaving only a pleasant, hazy memory. Clarinda and Clariss Capelle are identical twins. Even their parents can’t te ...
There are many of us who think that if Regency Romances want to keep and gain readership, the sub-genre needs to somehow change, to become more believable, to have more complex heroes and heroines, and to deal with difficult issues. To me, this would be a good thing. This doesn't mean, however, that ...
A hero who is older and jaded - who does not believe in love. A heroine who is a fresh out of the schoolroom innocent, who is about to get a painful lesson in life. Does this sound like anything we have heard before? Jane's father has gambled away everything - their family home, her and her sist ...