Mary Sharratt

• May-2000
• / Literary
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How can you weave a life from fairy tales? Set in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul during the First World War, Mary Sharratt's debut novel is the story of a young German immigrant experiencing her spiritual and sexual awakening.

As the poet Mandy Siv...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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A “memorable [and] entertaining” novel of three strong women in 1920s small-town Minnesota by the author of Revelations (The Washington Post Book World).Winner of the Willa Literary AwardFinalist for the Minnesota Book AwardIn a Midwestern farmin...

• Jun-2006
• / General Fiction
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An Englishwoman searches for her sister in colonial America in this historical tale of dark suspense, love, and betrayal for fans of Philippa Gregory.Bright and inquisitive, Hannah Powers was raised by a father who treated her as if she were his son....

• Apr-2010
• / Historical
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Daughters of theWitching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt. Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow living in Pendle Forest, is haunted by visi...

• Oct-2012
• / Historical
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A triumphant portrait of a resilient and courageous woman and the life she might have lived . . . Skillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt’s redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to lif...

• Apr-2016
• / Historical
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Shakespeare in Love meets Shakespeare’s Sister in this novel of England’s first professional woman poet and her collaboration and love affair with William Shakespeare. London, 1593. Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her...

• Apr-2018
• / Historical
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From the author of Illuminations, a novel of the imminent composer Alma Mahler, what she sacrificed for love, and how she brought men to their knees.Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma...

• May-2021
• / Historical
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A fifteenth-century Eat, Pray, Love, Revelations illuminates the intersecting lives of two female mystics who changed history -- Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. Bishop’s Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe ha...