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Beatriz Williams

Författare till The Summer Wives

33+ verk 8,241 medlemmar 604 recensioner 15 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

Beatriz Williams is a graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia. She is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of A Hundred Summers, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, Along the Infinite Sea, A Certain Age, and The Summer Wives. (Bowker Author Biography)

Inkluderar namnet: Beatriz Williams

Inkluderar även: Juliana Gray (1)

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Verk av Beatriz Williams

The Summer Wives (2018) 851 exemplar
A Hundred Summers (2013) 804 exemplar
The Secret Life of Violet Grant (2014) 760 exemplar
The Golden Hour (2019) 517 exemplar
The Forgotten Room (2016) 476 exemplar
A Certain Age (2016) 440 exemplar
The Glass Ocean (2018) 429 exemplar
Overseas (2012) 429 exemplar
Along the Infinite Sea (2015) 415 exemplar
All the Ways We Said Goodbye (2020) 381 exemplar
Our Woman in Moscow (2021) 356 exemplar
Her Last Flight (2020) 354 exemplar
Tiny Little Thing (2015) 344 exemplar
Cocoa Beach (2017) 305 exemplar
The Wicked City (2017) 273 exemplar

Associerade verk

Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 148 exemplar

Taggad

Allmänna fakta

Andra namn
Gray, Juliana
Födelsedag
1972
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Seattle, Washington, USA
Bostadsorter
Connecticut, USA
Utbildning
Stanford University
Columbia University

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Recensioner

Full disclosure: I am a sucker for well-done, intelligent historical fiction, so when a book is all that, I am transported and invested from cover to cover. This book had all of that. Set in two time periods — just before and during WWI and during WWII — in several countries — Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, the Bahamas, and south Florida — Ms. Willams weaves the stories of two grand, tragic love affairs into an historical, unflattering portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Edward and the woman he married, Wallis Simpson, thereby abdicating the crown of England. The plot has plenty of fresh twists, the characters are vivid and multi-dimensional, and the prose is lovely and lively. The narrator of the WWII-era parts, Lulu, is a plain-talking, tough but tender, modern American women thrown into this largely British life, and who would be at home in a black-and-white spy thriller. Delightful.… (mer)
 
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bschweiger | 36 andra recensioner | Feb 4, 2024 |
I finished this book several days ago, and I am already having trouble recalling what I liked and did not like when I was reading it. Perhaps that is because I have been working very late at work lately, and consequently read the book in shorter sessions over a longer period. The story kept me interested. Oddly, I found I did not get any real sense of the main character, who is the story’s narrator. What I did get from Ms. Williams, though, was a keen sense of place, of certain cultural norms and divisions in a small community, and particularly in a seasonal place like a seaside town or, as here, an island. The story is presented in two different time frames, 1951 and 1969, and the climactic event, of which we know the outcome from the beginning, is nevertheless peeled away in tighter spirals shifting forward and back. That device worked well in this story; I am usually annoyed with it when employed for no apparent reason.… (mer)
 
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bschweiger | 38 andra recensioner | Feb 4, 2024 |
I liked the many historical details in this book, particularly details about the Spanish Civil War. However I couldn't really connect with either of the main female characters. Janey Everett, a photojournalist sought out a famous female pilot, Irene Foster Lindquist, in order to gain information about Sam Mallory, about whom Everett was writing a book. It was a slow moving book with many details about Janey's love life and Irene's infatuation with Sam. The last quarter of the book picked up as secrets were revealed and the two women dialed down the drama.… (mer)
½
 
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terran | 42 andra recensioner | Jan 29, 2024 |
 
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ellink | 21 andra recensioner | Jan 22, 2024 |

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Statistik

Verk
33
Även av
1
Medlemmar
8,241
Popularitet
#2,935
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
604
ISBN
318
Språk
9
Favoritmärkt
15

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