Julian Fellowes’s new period drama, The Gilded Age, premieres on HBO/HBO Max on January 24, 2022. It’s been quite a while since I’ve revisted the works of Edith Wharton. I stumbled upon a copy of The House of Mirth at 18 and was hooked–I reread it once a year for the next ten years. Later, …
Category: Books
Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt: The Dollar Princess and Her Mother by Julie Ferry
As mother and daughter relationships go, Alva and Consuelo Vanderbilt’s was perhaps one of the worst during the Gilded Age. Alva, a Southern belle who married into the rich Vanderbilt family when she wed Willie K Vanderbilt on 20 April 1875 was determined from the moment her only daughter was born to ensure she made …
Cover Reveal – Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
I’m so happy to take part in the cover reveal for my fellow Fall of Poppies authors, Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb’s upcoming novel, Last Christmas in Paris! New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor joins with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War August 1914. England is at war. …