Synopsis "1838: Northumberland, England. Grace Darling enjoys her quiet island life at Longstone Lighthouse, at one with nature and the wild sea breezes. but her solitude is interrupted when she and her father rescue survivors of a shipwreck in a furious storm and Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, a heroine of her time. As her … Continue reading The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
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The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor
Synopsis "1917… It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true—didn’t it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes … Continue reading The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor
A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London’s Flower Sellers by Hazel Gaynor
spoilers ahead! This was the third Hazel Gaynor book I have read in the last year, after The Girl From the Savoy and The Girl Who Came Home and it was by far the best one yet! In the last few years I have been reading a lot more contemporary fiction than historical fiction, even … Continue reading A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London’s Flower Sellers by Hazel Gaynor
The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic by Hazel Gaynor tells the story of Maggie Murphy, a seventeen year old Irish immigrant traveling on the Titanic to join her family in Chicago. It is also the story of Grace, Maggie's granddaughter, who never knew that her Nana had been on Titanic and … Continue reading The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
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