LYNN M. ANDREWS

For stories set in a specific location. I will add to this continuously so stop back often to see where I have, in a literary fashion, traveled! And yes, I have read all of these titles :)

His mom always told him that stories were magic. Moms only tell the truth.

Isola is a novel based on a real woman, Marguerite de la Rocque, who was marooned on an island as punishment for falling in love with a man her guardian didn't approve of. This book wasn’t what I expected—its heavy emphasis on religion shapes nearly every part of the story. Characters are urged to submit to God and fear retribution for defiance. This reinforces the societal norms of the 1500s, where a woman’s place was strictly controlled: she was not to acknowledge her own

As a new year begins, I’m curious—what kind of reading are you hoping for right now?

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is an expansive historical fiction story woven together using an ancient civilization, one of the oldest poems in literature, two major rivers and a single drop of water as the threads.

The Wedding People by Alison Espach is a character-driven novel set in a seaside hotel in Newport, Rhode Island.