Inspired by the real-life diaries of 18th Century midwife Martha Ballard, Ariel Lawhon gives readers just a glance into the life of women in post-Revolution, small town America. Often illiterate and with no prospects other than marrying and having babies, women of the late 18th century were vulnerable and tended to be given sentences (whether…
Category: Doubleday Books
The Lioness
1960’s Serengeti, Hollywood starlet Katie Barlow, her husband, and a handful of friends head out on a photo safari. Within days of arriving, they’re taken hostage and not everyone will survive the kidnapping. Filled with meaningful history surrounding The US & Russia’s involved in Africa during the mid 1900’s, this is a story of the…
Lessons in Chemistry
Wow, what a fabulous debut story. Elizabeth Zott is logical, smart, and ambitious. These traits serve her well as a scientist, but don’t do her any favors as a women in the 60s. As one of the only women at Hastings Research Our main character, Elizabeth Zott is a brilliant scientist she’s roadblocked by the…
Olympus, Texas
This is the epitome of a family drama, and really the entire plot revolved around the internal drama that is the Briscoe family. This story is 100% about the character’s emotional baggage and coming to terms with who they are as people. While it promises to hold quite a bit of mythology references, unless you…