Previous SFF Author: Paul Kearney
New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, interweaving romance and historical intrigue with modern adventure. Her books, published in translation in more than 20 countries, have won the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards, a RITA Award, and National Readers’ Choice Awards, and have been finalists for the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year and the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. She lives near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
My recent read of Bellewether, the 2018 historical novel by Susanna Kearsley, left me slightly dissatisfied, but I knew (and was assured by historical novel-loving friends) that she was capable of far more engaging storytelling, so I dove into her older duology of Jacobite-era novels, The Winter Sea (2008) and The Firebird. Both of these books ― in which Kearsley employs her favored dual-timeline approach with romance subplots,
Tadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Susanna Kearsley | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley
Susanna Kearsley is a popular Canadian novelist who writes historical fiction, favoring the dual-timeline model with a current plotline and a historical one that intersect in one way or another. Her novels are generally spiced with a mystery, a romance (or perhaps two, one in each of the timelines) … and a paranormal element, such as time travel, ghostly spirits, or a character with psychic abilities.
Bellewether (2018), Kearsley’s first novel in three years, is of the dual-timeline model. The historical plotline,
Tadiana Jones´s rating: 3 | Susanna Kearsley | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Previous SFF Author: Paul Kearney
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