Set in the 1950s

The Lost Summers of Newport

Set in - 1800s, Set in Rhode Island, Set in the 1950s | | Leave a Comment

“The Lost Summers of Newport,” a collaborative historical fiction novel by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White, weaves together three storylines spanning over a century, centered on the crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island. The narrative alternates between 1899, 1957, and 2019, revealing layers of family secrets, scandal, and murder within a Gilded […]

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The Hotel New Hampshire

Set in New Hampshire, Set in the 1950s, Set in the 1960s | | Leave a Comment

John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire, published in 1981, is a sprawling, darkly comedic, and eccentric family saga that explores the resilience of love, the necessity of illusions, and the chaotic nature of fate. Narrated by John Berry, the novel follows the unorthodox lives of the Berry family, led by their optimistic yet delusional father,

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