The Violet Hour
10 best books like The Violet Hour (Katherine Hill): The Wishing Hill, Return to Oakpine, Ten Things I've Learnt About Love, The Affairs of Others, The Why of Things, Tumbledown, Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity, The Exiles, Love is a Canoe, When We Were Sisters
| Author | Holly Robinson |
| ISBN | 0451415949 |
What if everything you knew about your life was wrong?
Years ago, Juliet Clark gave up her life in California to follow the man she loved to Mexico and pursue her dream of being an artist. Now her marriage is over, and she’s alone, selling watercolors to tourists on the Puerto Vallarta boardwalk.
When...
| Author | Ron Carlson |
| ISBN | 0670025070 |
From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans of Richard Ford and Richard Russo
In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four...
| Author | Sarah Butler |
| ISBN | 1594205337 |
Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye.Daniel hasn’t had a roof over his head for years, but to him the city of London feels like home in a way that no bricks and...
| Author | Amy Grace Loyd |
| ISBN | 1250041295 |
A MESMERIZING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN, HAUNTED BY LOSS, WHO REDISCOVERS PASSION AND POSSIBILITY WHEN SHE'S DRAWN INTO THE TANGLED LIVES OF HER NEIGHBORS
Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved...
| Author | Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop |
| ISBN | 1451695756 |
From the critically acclaimed and “bitingly intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) author of December comes a buoyant and beautiful new novel about a family struggling in the aftermath of a suicide.
Since the tragic loss of her seventeen-year-old daughter less than a year ago,...
| Author | Robert Boswell |
| ISBN | 1555976492 |
In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.
At...
Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
| Author | Amy E. Spiegel |
| ISBN | 1433676265 |
Have you ever felt as though you didn’t recognize yourself in the mirror and yet you’re frantically trying to keep that image together? Felt bound by the dreams you had for life that you now realize have forced other expectations on you? Or maybe you’ve laughed at one of those insanely ridiculous...
A couple escaping the opulent lifestyle of Manhattan’s Upper East Side move to Newport, Rhode Island, only to be confronted by the trappings of the life they tried to leave behind.
Nate, a midlevel Wall Streeter, and his longtime girlfriend Emily are effectively evicted from New York City...
| Author | Ben Schrank |
| ISBN | 0374192499 |
In Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other.
Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. Marriage Is a...
| Author | Beth Miller |
| ISBN | 0091956315 |
A funny, poignant debut about female friendship and dysfunctional families
I never think of Laura as my stepsister, but that's what she is.
Once they were the best of friends, inseparable as only teenage girls can be. That is until Miffy’s Jewish father ran off with Laura’s Catholic...
From the editor of the New York Times bestselling essay anthology The Bitch in the House and the novel Sweet Ruin comes a compelling domestic drama about a woman who must hold her family together after her husband disappears.It is every woman’s nightmare—or fondest dream. Her husband leaves to...
| Author | Richard Lischer |
| ISBN | 0307960536 |
This poignant love story of a father for his son is at once funny, heartbreaking, and hopeful. In it a young man teaches his entire family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and, always, remarkable grace. This emotionally riveting account probes the heart without sentimentality or self-pity....
| Author | Aifric Campbell |
| ISBN | 1250028396 |
In the City, everything has a price. What’s yours? At the age of twenty-eight, Dubliner Geri Molloy has put her troubled past behind her to become a major player at Steiner’s investment bank in London, earning $850k a year doing business with a reclusive hedge fund manager in Hong Kong who, in return...
| Author | T.V. LoCicero |
| ISBN | 0615681352 |
At a conference in Italy’s lake district, American graduate student Stanford Lyle is enchanted with Lina Lentini, a lovely Italian professor of comparative lit. And when she lectures for a term at his mid-Michigan university, she considers a fling with Stan—until she meets John Martens, a professor,...
| Author | Jasmine Beach-Ferrara |
| ISBN | 1935439782 |
Set in San Francisco and North Carolina, the linked stories in Damn Love introduce us to characters struggling with love in all its complicated forms, including a young doctor getting over a breakup with the help of a patient, a newly married gay man who reconnects with his estranged mother, a trio of...
"Trasandes eloquently renders the passionate and heartrending love story...it’s rare to root for all sides of a love triangle, but the author’s depth of insight into her characters makes this a wonderfully accomplished first novel."—Publisher's Weekly
An unforgettably haunting...
| Author | William Azuski |
| ISBN | 3952401528 |
Plato’s metaphysical Atlantis mystery plays out on an archaeological dig on the island of Santorini.
It was the chance of a lifetime. A dream job in the southern Aegean. Apprentice to the great archaeologist Marcus Huxley, lifting a golden civilisation from the dead... Yet trading rural...
| Author | Ethan Hauser |
| ISBN | 1620401150 |
An unprecedented storm is threatening the East Coast, swelling the rivers and muddying the roads, and in a small suburb of Boston, a group of intimates and strangers struggles to confront a rapidly changing world. Vincent, a high school shop teacher, grapples with whether to hospitalize his only daughter....
| Author | Lisa Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374277869 |
This vivid portrait of a family unraveling is perfect for book clubs.
—People, (FOUR out of FOUR Stars)
Myra is a Manhattan psychotherapist. A quick study and an excellent judge of character, she thinks she knows what she’s getting when she hires a nanny—it’s her job, after all,...
In the Land of the Living
| Author | Austin Ratner |
| ISBN | 0316206091 |
A dazzling story of fathers, sons, and brothers - bound by love, divided by history
The Auberons are a lovably neurotic, infernally intelligent family who love and hate each other-and themselves-- in equal measure. Driven both by grief at his young mother's death and war with his distant,...
| Author | Joanna Scott |
| ISBN | 0374162336 |
A gripping novel about a seemingly charmed marriage and a mysterious disappearance at sea.
In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs...
On a cold Valentine’s Day in Chicago, Amy White, a young widow who lost her husband to cancer, visits the cemetery and makes an unsettling discovery: a bouquet of fresh daffodils lying in front of her husband’s grave.
Curiosity grows into obsession as Amy searches for the stranger who left...
| Author | Rachel Howzell Hall |
| ISBN | 0765336367 |
Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman perished in the blaze, along with her two children. Left behind is grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after trying to rescue his...
To give is a virtue. But to give your very self, the ultimate bequest. Offered in love, it can be wondrous. Offered in desperation, it can be deadly.
In Book Two of this three-part epic, young and tempting Kate Simmons at last seemed to have reached a safe haven of happiness when she moved in with...
