by Seniye Groff | Jul 21, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Saints for All Occasions is not your typical hard-luck Irish immigrant story. Nora and Theresa Flynn leave their quintessential existence in small-town Ireland to move to Boston. They are not penniless or homeless. Nora is set to marry Charlie and Theresa dreams of...
by Site Owner | Oct 31, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
A Refreshing, Satisfying Read By J. Courtney Sullivan Alfred A. Knopf, 383 pages, $26.95 The Engagements opens with Mary Francis Gerrety, the real life copywriter who created the DeBeer’s famous advertising slogan in 1947, “A Diamond is...