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I think fans of Jane Austen would enjoy Middlemarch by George Eliot. (confession time … I only recently learned that George Eliot is a pseudonym for a woman, Mary Ann Evans, #ThingsIFeelLikeIShouldHaveLearnedInHighSchoolButDidn’t).

I haven’t met a book by Kim Vogel Sawyer that I haven’t liked, and this one was no different.

Moira Doherty decides to fulfill her mother’s wish and move to Ireland, her mother’s homeland, and become a teacher in her mother’s home village. What she doesn’t realize is that she’s going to be met with suspicion and a hint of family scandal.

While staying on the Brittany coast of France, Anne-Lise finds a manuscript in her hotel room night stand. She reads it and loves it.

The storyline of this novel revolves around the Civil War and the issue of slavery and is probably the first book I’ve read that presents it from not only the perspective of a slave (Jemma), but also a family of staunch abolitionists (The Woolsey's).