by Pepper Basham | Mar 23, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
Can their epic search for true love survive a father’s fury? The daughter of King Saul, Michal lives a life of privilege–but one that is haunted by her father’s unpredictable moods and competition from her beautiful older sister. As a girl, Michal...
by Pepper Basham | Mar 16, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
From the author of Mr. Darcy’s Daughters, the delightful escapades of the Darcy family continue with an enchanting story set at Pride and Prejudice’s Pemberley. When Phoebe, a young niece of Pride and Prejudice’s Mr. Darcy, is shattered by an unhappy...
by Pepper Basham | Mar 15, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
This hauntingly beautiful manor house sits atop a hill in Derbyshire between Holloway and Crich. Though it ruins, the structure is still impressive and, to me, somehow romantic. The Treasurer of England, Lord Ralph Cromwell, built it in the 1440s and Mary, Queen of...
by Pepper Basham | Mar 15, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
In England, sheep never seem to be scarce. Throughout the lush green countryside, one can notice dots of white fluffl scattered everywhere. As often as we walked through fields with grazing sheep, I realized that they are not very sociable creatures 🙂
by Pepper Basham | Mar 15, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
Here is a view from the window of our bed & breakfast – Manor Farm in Dethick, Derbyshire. It was a wonderful English Manor house with a working farm. Through the window of our room you can see the ‘church of ease’ built a few years after the...
by Pepper Basham | Mar 13, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
English professor Emma Grant has always done everything just the way her minister father told her she should — a respectable marriage, a teaching job at a good college, and plans for the requisite two children. Life was prodigiously good, as her favorite author...
