Sue Sully, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (329p) ISBN 978-0-312-08140-9
Childhood friends Elizabeth Thome and Edward Munro challenge Victorian conventions by consummating their love on a sultry summer afternoon in a Somerset barleyfield. But taboos die hard: Edward is repulsed by Elizabeth's passionate response, and she
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Sue Sully, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-312-09385-3
The three strong-willed women at the core of this overblown romance may struggle with the strictures of Victorian England, but they are utterly defeated by Sully's ( The Barleyfield ) melodramatic and hoary plot. Unconventional Elizabeth, a widow,...
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Sue Sully, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-312-11281-3
In her most assured novel yet, Sully (The Shingle Beach) perceptively explores the effects of suppressed sexuality, the class system and the changing position of women on British society in the early 20th century. On the eve of WWI, strong-minded...
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Sue Sully, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13471-6
Admirers of the leisurely historical novel will relish Sully's latest (after The Bluebell Pool). Esther Norbrook, still devastated by the death of her husband during a WWI battle two years earlier, seeks solace by visiting the Dorset coast. There,...
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