Books by Janet Tanner and Complete Book Reviews
Janet Tanner, Author St. Martin's Press $25 (452p) ISBN 978-0-312-01538-1
In this vigorous, hefty novel, the romantic history of two young Australian women is intertwined with World War II and the aftermath of the Japanese attack on their homeland. For Tara Kelly, an Irish immigrant raised in the slums of Sydney, as for...
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Janet Tanner, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (572p) ISBN 978-0-312-03357-6
In the small mining town of Hillsbridge, the locale of Tanner's previous, well-received novels ( The Hours of Light ; The Emerald Valley ) the reverberations of WW II are felt in various ways by members of the Hall family. Some of the extended clan...
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Janet Tanner, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (581p) ISBN 978-0-312-04607-1
This spirited family saga opens in the present and flashes back to its origins in England in the early 1900s. Gilbert Morse, head of a thriving motor company and master of an imposing estate in the Somerset hills where a batch of willful offspring...
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Janet Tanner, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (516p) ISBN 978-0-312-09266-5
Curiosity about a 20-year-old murder sparks a lively family saga that sweeps its characters across two continents and shuttles between the present and the war-ravaged 1930s and '40s. On the English Channel island of Jersey, investigative reporter...
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Janet Tanner, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (454p) ISBN 978-0-312-11261-5
Brimming with bridled British passion, this novel by the author of Daughter of Riches combines mystery and melodrama in a world where everything is ``somehow darkly dangerous'' and women make love like an ``active volcano.'' The setting is the high-f
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