The Kinship Series by Jess Montgomery has three books. I read the first book, The Widows, in 2019. Montgomery is an Ohio author and the books are set in Ohio. I live in Ohio, too, so the series appealed to me.
Monthly Archives: June 2021
The Four Winds tells so much about life in America in the 1930s without sounding like a history book.
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
In The Book of Lost Names, warned by a family friend that the Nazis are coming to round up 20,000 French Jews, Eva wakes in fear when there is a knock on her parents’ door. They didn’t want to leave. It turns out to be a neighbor who needs help watching her children. Eva and her mother go stay but while they are sleeping, Eva’s father is taken by the French police.
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Brideshead Revisited is framed by Charles visiting Brideshead when he is a soldier in WW2. His artwork still dons the walls, but the family does not live there anymore. It starts and ends with him there as a soldier, which ties the book together to show how deeply the Marchmain family impacted him.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Sarah Anne's Bookshelf - May 2021