Books by Kate Furnivall and Complete Book Reviews
Kate Furnivall, Author . Berkley $15 (517p) ISBN 978-0-425-21558-6
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he experiences of the author's mother inspired this debut novel, a somewhat improbable tale of star-crossed love in 1928 China. Valentina Ivanova and her 16-year-old daughter, Lydia, White Russian refugees, live in grinding poverty in the...
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Kate Furnivall, Author . Berkley $15 (470p) ISBN 978-0-425-22164-8
Sophia Morozova's relationship with fragile Anna Fedorina begins through a small act of kindness at a 1930s Siberian labor camp. As the two inmates struggle daily to survive, they increasingly rely on each other for hope and comfort; when Anna falls
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Kate Furnivall, Author . Berkley $15 (500p) ISBN 978-0-425-22764-0
In her third novel, Furnivall returns to the story of Lydia Ivanova from The Russian Concubine
, a Russian girl who fled the Bolsheviks and settled in Junchow, China, with her mother, who was then killed. Alone in a strange culture, Lydia learns...
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Kate Furnivall, Berkley, $15 paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-425-23423-5
Beginning in the lead-up to the Bolshevik uprising, Furnivall's sure-to-please prequel to her successful The Russian Concubine centers on Valentina Ivanova, the daughter of a minister in Tsar Nicholas's crumbling regime. When revolutionaries bomb...
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Kate Furnivall. Berkley, $15 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-425-24100-4
In another of her historical action stories, Furnivall (The Russian Concubine) takes readers on a tour through the islands of the Southeast Asian Pacific in the throes of WWII. The novel opens in colonial Malaya with Connie Hadley, the compliant...
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Kate Furnivall. Berkley, $15 (448p) ISBN 978-0-425-26508-6
At age seven, Jessie Kenton’s upper-middle-class London world revolved around her emotionally disturbed younger brother, Georgie. One night, with no explanation, their parents took Georgie away, “replacing” him with an orphan boy named Timothy, whom
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