Books by Kathleen Tessaro and Complete Book Reviews
Kathleen Tessaro, Author . Morrow $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-052225-4
A frumpy, depressed woman is reborn as an assertive diva in Tessaro's debut novel, thanks to a 40-year-old style manual she discovers in a second-hand bookstore. Louise Canova is an American woman from Pittsburgh who lives in London with her...
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Kathleen Tessaro, Author . Avon $13.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-06-112576-8
When charming, penniless would-be actor Hughie Armstrong Venables-Smythe answers a mysterious London ad for “an attractive, well-mannered, mentally flexible young man,” he learns that he’s to become a professional flirt, hired not...
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Kathleen Tessaro, Avon, $13.99 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-112578-2
A melancholic, multigenerational romance makes the most of a very tangled web. Cate, an artist who abandoned her talent, heart, and self-respect in New York, washes up in London an emotional wreck in desperate need of work. A temporary gig as an...
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Kathleen Tessaro. Harper, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-225783-3
Tessaro (Innocence) dazzles the senses in this novel about a reluctant British socialite who receives a mysterious inheritance from an unknown Frenchwoman in 1950s Europe. Tessaro’s flashback-layered narrative concerns the mildly clichéd Grace...
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Kathleen Tessaro. Harper, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-235754-0
Tessaro’s (The Perfume Collector) sixth novel navigates a complicated friendship between two damaged young women in 1932 Boston. After finishing secretarial school, Maeve Fanning moved to New York to seek her fortune—a venture that lasted less than...
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