Vital Ties Karen Kringle Spinsters Ink 1992 In her rural Wisconsin community in the 1950s, 20-year-old Clare Lewis’s determination to own her own farm is ridiculed as beyond a woman’s abilities. No bank will grant her a loan, and her father plans to leave the family dairy farm to her mediocre brother Harry. Unexpectedly, Clare’s…
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The Marquise and the Novice Victoria Ramstetter the Naiad Press 1981 Acolyte Kathleen Thorn leaves the security and pent up frustration of the nunnery to become a governess for the only child of a wilful, beautiful and mysterious Marquise Annaliese. She becomes entangled in the web of mysteries surrounding the dark and seductive woman and…
The Leech Cora Sandel The Women’s Press 1986 As a young woman, Dondi left her home in the Norwegian south for a small town inside the Arctic Circle, to marry Gregor, then a promising young writer. Now, more than a decade later, her children are rebellious, her husband is less than famous, she is miserable…
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I Never Told Her I Loved Her
I Never Told Her I Loved Her Sandra Chick The Women’s Press 1989 “You’ll miss me one day”, her Mum said. “When you’re dead I’ll be able to do what I want! I can’t wait”, Frankie had replied. Now her Mother is dead and Frankie remembers these words, and others. She feels totally lost, wondering…
Inland Passage Jane Rule the Naiad Press 1985 Why does Dulce have so profound an impact on the artistic lives around her? A lesbian has ended her conventional marriage and is free – or is she? In the most traditional of romantic settings, on board a ship that travels the Inland Passage, two women discover…