Country Girls Read

Sira Quiroga is raised by a single parent. Her mother is very resourceful and supports herself and her daughter as a seamstress. Sira is taught from a young age how to handle a needle: “I learn...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/the-time-in-between/

Growing up with a grandmother who resented her very existence and deprived of a normal family and childhood, Sarah Graham takes refuge in her music. Her violin is the only solace she has, as ever...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/home-another-way/

Like many others, I had always been taught from schooldays that it was the sinking of the Lusitania that propelled America into the First World War. The author, with his rendition of the developm...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/dead-wake-the-last-crossing-of-the-lusitania/

When I picked up this book at our local library, I wasn’t sure if it would keep my interest. Although I enjoy historical fiction and have a special fondness for World War 2 stories, there has b...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/the-atomic-city-girls/

“She was not happy, but, to all intents and purposes, she had everything. A lovely house, a handsome husband, and the children. The children were worth everything…” Virginia Keile is recupe...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/the-empty-house/

Major Marwood lives on an old estate (Saunby Priory) with his two teen-age daughters and spinster sister Victoria. Like many of England’s estates after the Second World war, his finances simply...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2018/10/02/the-priory/

When I finished reading Dorothy Whipple’s “Someone at a Distance” I enjoyed it so much I couldn’t wait to start the next from this author. “Greenbanks” had good reviews so I decided t...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/greenbanks/

“Old Mrs. North’s husband had spoilt her, but now that he was dead and her three children married, no one spoilt her any more. She didn’t come first with anybody and she didn’t like that....

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/someone-at-a-distance/

I really enjoyed this historical fiction novel set in the mid 1700’s in South Carolina. When Eliza Lucas is placed in charge of her family’s plantations (three!), at the tender age of sixteen...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/the-indigo-girl/

The Blake family typifies many English middle-class families. Thomas and Celia Blake have two daughters and one son. There is Douglas, who longs to be a chemist but is expected to follow in his f...

https://countrygirlsread.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/they-knew-mr-knight/