Books by Isla Dewar and Complete Book Reviews

Giving Up on Ordinary
Giving Up on Ordinary
Isla Dewar, Author . St. Martin’s Griffin $14.99 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-56161-1
Megs Williams, the single mother heroine of Brit author Dewar’s pleasant latest, is in a miserable spot: she’s wracked with grief over the recent accidental death of one of her three children, she’s pregnant and, having lost her...
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Dancing in a Distant Place
Dancing in a Distant Place
Isla Dewar, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-312-34946-2
This first U.S. release from Scottish novelist Dewar centers on Iris Chisholm, an unassuming school teacher leading an ordinary existence in the late 1960s until her husband dies in a car accident. Left in financial disarray from his secret gambling
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Secrets of a Family Album
Secrets of a Family Album
Isla Dewar, Author Thomas Dunne Books $25.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-312-34226-5
Scots writer Dewar's seventh novel is a funny, moving portrait of Edinburgh family members struggling to define themselves outside of their intricate network of attachments. Through a journalism assignment interviewing a 1960s feminist icon and...
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