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Alison Bechdel recommended The Night Watch in Books (curated)

 
The Night Watch
The Night Watch
Sarah Waters | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry
8.5 (2 Ratings)
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"I love all of Sarah Waters’ historical fiction but this is my favorite novel, set during and after WWII. It starts slow but picks up insane momentum, using reverse narration to follow the characters backward in time to the explosive wartime scenes that shaped them."

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The Photographer's Wife
The Photographer's Wife
Suzanne Joinson | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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I just updated my review of Joinson's gloriously written historical fiction novel goes from Jerusalem in 1920 to Shoreham, England in 1937. Find out else I thought of this book in my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2016/02/13/through-a-darkened-lens/
  
Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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As promised, my first book review of the New Year is for "Brides in the Sky" by Cary Holliday, which is a collection of mostly historical fiction short stories and a novella. If you ask me, shorter fiction is harder to write than novels, and you can find out if Holladay succeeded with this format on my new blog, here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2019/01/04/inconvenient-separations/
  
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Fourth Dawn (A.D. Chronicles #4)
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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The historical fiction series flashes back for the first of a trilogy about the birth of Yeshua. Powerful even if you already know the ending.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-fourth-dawn-by-bodie-and.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Deborah (162 KP) rated The Marsh Hawk in Books

Dec 21, 2018  
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The Marsh Hawk
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4.0 (1 Ratings)
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I don't know if my expectations were too high with all the really positive reviews, but this one didn't grab me as much as I'd hoped. The villain is really very, very wicked and the protagonist must be as blind as bats!

I like at least an attemp at historical accuracy in my historical fiction, but there were some odd things going on here IMO. First Floor conservatory? Unlikely - or an Americanism?!