Books by Viola Shipman and Complete Book Reviews
Viola Shipman. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-07132-3
Shipman’s debut novel unites three generations of women as they come together to heal the wounds of their pasts and forge a family. Arden works for the Chicago magazine Paparazzi, editing and writing code for the magazine’s website. While she is not
READ FULL REVIEW
Viola Shipman. Graydon House, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-5258-0644-5
Shipman (Clover Girls) delivers a beautifully written story about second chances. After 50-year-old meteorologist Sonny Dunes is fired from her Palm Springs, Calif., TV station and replaced by an artificial intelligence system, she gets drunk with a
READ FULL REVIEW
Viola Shipman. Graydon House, $17.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-5258-0484-7
Shipman (The Secret of Snow) delivers a leisurely holiday romance about a woman who’s convinced her soulmate is Santa—or at least dresses like him. Both Susan Norcross’s late mother and living grandmother met their husbands while the men were in...
READ FULL REVIEW
Viola Shipman. Graydon, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-525-80461-8
The emotional scars left by war unite two women, generations apart, in Shipman’s sentimental family saga (after The Summer Cottage). The novel opens in 1944 with Iris Maynard working in a community garden in Grand Haven, Mich., where she receives...
READ FULL REVIEW