Books like Tara by Lesley Pearse

Set on the Battersea Reach of the Thames, this novel follows a motley group of houseboat dwellers, from a homosexual prostitute to a former navy man, whose interwoven lives reveal the complexities of motherhood and community.

A powerful debut novel set in London and Iran, exploring the secrets and regrets of a mother and her daughter.

Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend examines the daily life of Confederate women and finds it considerably grimmer than the version of it supplied by myth-makers nostalgic for a past that never was. Clinton's last pages offer a penetrating summary of the reasons for the myth's durable appeal. - New Yorker, on cover flap. This captivating volume cuts through romantic myth, combining period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of Southern women during the Civil War. Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine Clinton provides a vivid social and cultural history of the diverse communities of Southern women during the Civil War: the heroic African-American women who struggled for freedom, the tireless nurses who faced gruesome duties, the intriguing handful who donned uniforms, and those brave women who spied and even died for the Confederacy. Photographs, drawings, prints, and other period illustrations bring this buried chapter of Civil War history to life, taking the reader from the cotton fields to the hearthsides, from shrapnel-riddled mansions to slave cabins. Clinton places these women within the context of war, illuminating both legendary and anonymous women along the way. Tracing oral traditions and Southern literature from Reconstruction through our era, the author demonstrates how a deadly mix of sentiment and fabrication perpetuates tales of idyllic plantations inhabited by benevolent masters and contented slaves. The book concludes with Clinton's perceptive and often witty discussion of how, over the years, we continue to embrace mythic figures like Scarlett and Mammy in aspects of popular culture ranging from Hollywood epics to pancake syrup. - Cover flap.

4th book in the Ramsey and Brady series.

Milly McClancy rises from famine‑stricken Ireland to stage fame and becomes the first in a line of four generations of celebrated actresses. In Manhattan’s TV studios, family secrets ignite a dramatic showdown.

A mystery novel about a missing woman who must confront her own fraudulent behavior to understand the connections of the characters to her disappearance.

After a divorce and financial setback, Candida Wilton moves to London and discovers a windfall that propels her to pursue a lifelong dream: a journey with six women friends to Tunis, Naples, and Pompeii.