Books by Juliette Fay and Complete Book Reviews
Juliette Fay, Author . Avon A $13.95 (415p) ISBN 978-0-06-167339-9
After Janie LaMarche's husband, Robby, dies in a motorcycle accident, the 38-year-old Pelham, Mass., widow embarks on a year of transformations in Fay's wise and inspirational debut. Going through the bewildering and painful cycle of grief
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Juliette Fay, Penguin, $15 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-14-311851-0
Familiar material—a newly divorced woman navigating the choppy waters of single parenthood—gets sensitive treatment in this subtle novel by the author of Shelter Me. Connecticut homemaker Dana Stellgarten tends to give everyone the benefit of the...
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Juliette Fay. Penguin, $15 trade paper (386p) ISBN 978-0-14-312191-6
Three decades ago, Sean Doran’s mother died at 33 of Huntington’s disease, and his father, a merchant marine, left Sean and his two siblings in the care of their cold and distant Aunt Vivian. Though the siblings grow up aware of the threat of...
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Juliette Fay. S&S/Gallery, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3447-0
In Fay’s latest novel, four sisters take to the road in pursuit of vaudeville fame and fortune, but soon find the journey bringing them closer to each other and their own personal desires than it does to riches and celebrity. When their father...
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Juliette Fay. Gallery, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9293-7
In Fay’s good-hearted novel, Irene Van Beck, Millie Martin, and Henry Weiss jump from a moving train in 1921 to escape the burlesque show where they’re employed and its dangerous henchman and head to Hollywood. There they discover that their...
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Juliette Fay. Morrow, $17.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-323596-0
A woman finds closure 40 years after being betrayed by her first love in this lukewarm tale of forgiveness and redemption from Fay (Catch Us When We Fall). In 1981, 18-year-old Helen Spencer had what she believed to be a romantic first time with Cal
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Juliette Fay, read by Marguerite Gavin. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.5 hrs., $32.95 ISBN 978-1-4551-1150-3
Fay’s winsome debut comes to life in this audio adaptation thanks to the absorbing narration of Marguerite Gavin. Her voice is rich, somewhat cynical, and an excellent match for this story about a 38-year-old woman coping with grief and rage after...
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