Tag: Nancy Bilyeau

  • REVIEW of The Ghost of Madison Avenue by Nancy Bilyeau

    REVIEW of The Ghost of Madison Avenue by Nancy Bilyeau

    Helen O’Neill has a gift, a lightness and quickness about her hands that seems otherworldly–a great contrast to the heaviness in her heart over her lost husband. When her talent for restoring artifacts is observed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Helen is whisked away to work at J.P. Morgan’s personal library. The ornate building…

  • REVIEW of Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau

    REVIEW of Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau

    When Peggy Batternberg’s family bids her drop her plebeian job at a bookshop and join them for a summer holiday at the Oriental Hotel, she fumes at the idea. But wealthy Jewish financiers are not used to being denied, and out of consideration for her younger sister’s feelings, Peggy bows to the decree. The aristocratic…

  • REVIEW of The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau

    REVIEW of The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau

    Genevieve Planché wants nothing more than to be a “history-painter” like Hogarth and Reynolds, but in a century where painting the human form is an immodest occupation for women, her options are few. Her Huegenot grandfather determines to send her away from London to become a porcelain decorator in Derby, but Genevieve bridles at the…

  • REVIEW of The Crown, by Nancy Bilyeau

    REVIEW of The Crown, by Nancy Bilyeau

    I didn’t enter any historical fiction reading challenges this year, and consequently, the amount of historical fiction in my TBR pile has significantly declined from last year. The Crown, by Nancy Bilyeau is the first historical novel I’ve read, and I’m certainly glad I didn’t pass it up! It’s a historical whodunit that belongs right…