Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-312-86775-1
In the leafy glade at Greythorn Hall, it is said, voices sound in the treetops and a lovely woman wanders. For Maya Wentworth, orphaned and sent to live in a Yorkshire vicarage with her aunt and uncle, anything to do with nearby Greythorn and its...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-02618-9
Clare Meredith is a destructive beauty born to wreak havoc in the lives of other women. Told by one of her sisters, Eve, this is the story of the girls' growing up in India in the 1920s, the declining years of the British Raj. The Meredith family...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-312-07669-6
This British import is as bland and trivial as its main characters, five young women who have become ``close as sisters'' while rooming together at Lorivals, a boarding school in rural Lancashire catering to the elite or ``chosen ones.'' At...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (459p) ISBN 978-0-312-04849-5
Ellen Adair becomes friends with Kitty McGuire in a classroom in Yorkshire, where Kitty's poor Irish family suffers from the community's bigotry and Ellen is victimized by her hypercritical father, the village sexton. After they run away to...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-312-05970-5
As this first - person narrative opens, middle-aged Lisa Hamilton is returning to Lancashire for the burial of her grandmother, a formidable matriarch whose disapproval marred Lisa's childhood. In flashback we learn that Lisa's childhood in Kenya...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (474p) ISBN 978-0-312-09842-1
This mildly diverting sequel to The Chosen Ones continues Hylton's portrayal of a group of friends who first met at an exclusive British boarding school. Lovely, fiercely independent Nancy follows her beloved Noel through the harsh politics of the...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-312-11004-8
Only the most devoted Hylton ( The Last Reunion ) fans will find sustenance in this long, poorly plotted historical romance centering around a beautiful young Englishwoman ' s tragic affair with an Egyptian prince. It's 1922 when Laura Levison-Gore...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13595-9
In prewar Britain, young narrator Joanna Albemarle learns that her father has been posted to the Far East and that she will stay with her paternal grandparents at Reckmire Marsh, their lovely seaside home in northern England, which her domineering...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-15667-1
Set in France at the end of the 19th century, Hylton's latest historical novel (after In the Shadow of the Nile) manages to be entertaining despite its reliance on stereotypes about gender and class. Beautiful and clever Marie Claire Moreau, a...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14677-1
In her always solid historicals, Hylton (Reckmire Marsh) often explores women's friendships and rivalries; this exemplary new one proves no exception. Lovely narrator Ginny Lawrence, the pampered but kindhearted young daughter of a close British...
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Sara Hylton, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-19413-0
Between Northern England's misty moors and the British Empire's Oriental extremities, the heroine of Hylton's (Melissa) 18th historical novel outgrows her awkwardness in style. The daughter of a British army officer in India just before WWI, Amanda...
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