Virginia Hume’s Liberty Island is a multigenerational historical novel set along the rocky coast of Maine and within the privileged world of Boston society during the early twentieth century. Spanning 1900 and 1922, the novel explores the changing roles of women, the tension between independence and family loyalty, and the enduring search for personal freedom.
Published in 1937, The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand is a satirical yet affectionate portrait of Boston’s upper-class society and the values that shaped it during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Presented as a fictional biography compiled after George Apley’s death, the novel traces the life of a man whose personal
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This Other Eden by Paul Harding is a lyrical and at times desturbing historical novel inspired by the real-life expulsion of a mixed-race island community from Malaga Island, Maine, in 1912. The 2023 novel blends historical fact with imaginative storytelling, the novel explores themes of belonging, prejudice, family, and the enduring power of memory. For
In Jane Healey’s historical novel The Saturday Evening Girls Club, set in 1908 in Boston’s North End, four young female immigrants—two Italian Catholic and two Russian Jewish—strive to navigate traditional family expectations, romantic heartbreaks, and cultural prejudices. The real-life club serves as their refuge, empowering them to seek their versions of the American Dream. Caprice
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