Kate Saunders, Author . St. Martin's $21.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-312-33940-1
In her sprightly second novel, Saunders (The Marrying Game
) humorously captures the love affair between the boisterous British Darling family and their lifelong girl-next-door, Cassie. With emotionally distant parents of her own, Cassie has looked...
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Kate Saunders, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-525-93764-7
The usual historical romance ingredients--women's friendships, unplanned pregnancy, adultery, illness, war, political conflict, generational tension--are deftly handled in Saunders's ( The Prodigal Father ) latest offering. Set in Ireland, England...
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Kate Saunders. Delacorte, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-74301-3
This entertaining English fantasy from Saunders (Magicalamity) reads as though conjured up by a clever child’s imagination, creating a world where, behind ordinary police and government forces, a Secret Ministry of the Unexplained (SMU) exists to...
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Kate Saunders. Delacorte, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-553-49793-9
Published in 2014 (the centennial of the start of WWI) in England, where it won the Costa Children’s Book Award, Saunders’s moving homage to E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It is an irresistible read for a wide range of readers. In a daring move,...
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Kate Saunders. Bloomsbury, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-63286-449-9
Laetitia Rodd, the narrator of this lively series debut set in 1850 from British author Saunders (Night Shall Overtake Us), was left in reduced circumstances by her clergyman husband’s death. Now living with her working-class friend and landlady,...
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Kate Saunders, Author, William Carman, Illustrator , illus. by William Carman. Feiwel and Friends $16.99 (231p) ISBN 978-0-312-36961-3
In this quirky and appealing British import, down-to-earth Jane, 11, who has six unruly brothers (and is often mistaken for a boy herself), finds her ordinary life changing when peculiar Staffa enrolls in her class and chooses her for a best friend.
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Kate Saunders. Bloomsbury, $17 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-63286-839-8
Set in 1851, Saunders’s excellent sequel to 2016’s The Secrets of Wishtide opens with 53-year-old Laetitia Rodd, a clergyman’s widow who does inquiries to supplement her meager income, hearing a plea from Jacob Welland, a fellow Hampstead resident...
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Kate Saunders. Bloomsbury, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4088-6692-4
Set in 1853, Saunders’s entertaining third Laetitia Rodd mystery (after 2019’s The Case of the Wandering Scholar) finds Laetitia, genteel London private investigator, an archdeacon’s widow, and the very epitome of respectability, considering taking...
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