People USA – September 02, 2019

murders he writes

about—and lets

readers come

The Best New Books

Duty and dreaming in the 17th century,

befuddlement as Brexit looms and

love lessons in modern-day Manhattan

Edited by Kim Hubbard

Philippa Gregory

Tidelands

NOVEL

Shifting her focus from royalty to commoners,

Gregory (The White Queen, The Other Boleyn Girl)

centers her latest superb historical fiction—

the first in a series—on Alinor, an abandoned wife

and mother in 17th-century England who ekes

out a hardscrabble living while daring to dream of

more. Alinor’s hopes ignite when she

and an aristocrat fall in love, but the forces of

privilege, ignorance and misogyny align

against her. A searing portrait of a woman

that resonates across the ages.

Jonathan

Vatner

Carnegie Hill

NOVEL

In this effervescent

debut about an elite

Manhattan co-op, a young

heiress named Pepper

is determined to achieve

wedded bliss with her

fiancé. She’s inspired

by older couples in the

building, but their stories

illustrate that marriage

is invariably hard—and

escaping the vulnerable

child within us even

harder, though not

impossible. Entertaining

and profound.

they used to be in this

once-proud nation:

disappearing jobs, empty

storefronts, #MeToo

horrors, distrust of

foreigners. Sound famil-

iar? Set in Birmingham,

England, at the dawn of

the Brexit era, Coe’s witty

and knowing satire

exposes the deepest feel-

ings of a bunch of enter-

taining Brits facing an

uncomfortable future—in

a world very like our own.

New in Nonfiction

Caitlin

Moscatello

See Jane Win

A fascinating

behind-the-scenes

look at the

campaigns of four

female candidates

who helped make

history in the

2018 midterms.

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Telling the story of

her family and their

New Orleans home—

destroyed by Hurri-

cane Katrina—Broom

shines a light on racial

and economic

injustice and what it

means to belong.

Billy Jensen

Chase Darkness

with Me

A crime journalist

sets out to

actually solve

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