Earth and High Heaven

10 best books like Earth and High Heaven (Gwethalyn Graham): War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line, Lost Children Archive, Stone Mothers, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, How I Became Hettie Jones, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Drina Dances Again, Ballet for Drina, Drina Dances in Italy, Expectation

War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

Author	David Nott
ISBN	1509837027

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving...

Lost Children Archive

Author	Valeria Luiselli
ISBN	0525520619

From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.

A...

Stone Mothers

Author	Erin Kelly
ISBN	1250113717

Erin Kelly, the masterful author of He Said/She Said, delivers another irresistible, unputdownable novel of psychological suspense.

You can't keep the secret.
You can't tell the truth.
You can't escape the past...

Marianne was seventeen when she fled her home in Nusstead...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Author

Winifred Watson

Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew...

How I Became Hettie Jones

Author	Hettie Jones
ISBN	0802134963

Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who'd been born into a middle-class Jewish family in Queens and who'd chosen to cross racial barriers to marry the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones. Theirs was a bohemian...

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Author	Paul Gallico
ISBN	1558820213

Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything...

Drina Dances Again

Author	Jean Estoril
ISBN	0590425579

A sprained ankle at the start of term forces Drina to stop dancing for a month. However, this gives her the opportunity to play the role of Margaret in the play Dear Brutus for a short run in the West End.

Over summer, Drina and Rose are chosen to dance in The Nutcracker as 'Little Clara' with the Dominick...

Ballet for Drina

Author	Jean Estoril
ISBN	0590421905

I received this book from my cousin when I was quite young, perhaps about 8 or 9. I'm not sure how many times I read it as a child, but it was a favorite. I loved the illustration on the cover- the edition I had as a child was the Scholastic edition with the pink cover.

A few years ago, I was poking around...

Drina Dances in Italy

Author	Jean Estoril
ISBN	0590425587

This book takes us back to the level of the first two, in my opinion. Not only is Drina back to her normal self - except for maybe a chapter and a half of undue wallowing - but it also introduces two new characters I love - Ilonka and Igor. Ilonka is a refugee from a fictional country under Soviet rule behind the...

Expectation

Author	Anna Hope
ISBN	0857524909

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.

Ten years on, they are not...