Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus.
“Children, set the table; your mother needs a minute to herself.” It’s the early 1960s. Elizabeth Zott, the host of the afternoon TV cooking show Supper at Six, is a brilliant scientist, but male privilege has denied her a PhD or recognition for her subsequent research work. Yet Zott’s cooking show proves to be more than the lightweight fluff her program director expects.
The Sweetheart Locket
by Jen Gilroy.
Two women. Two timelines. Two generations. When World War II breaks out, sheltered Canadian girl Maggie stays in London to “do her bit.” In present day, Willow uncovers secrets her grandmother never revealed, and in the process finds new direction for her own life.
A Game of Fear
by Charles Todd.
It’s 1921. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent to a remote village to investigate a murder with no body, and a killer who could only be a ghost.
The Pull of the Stars
Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined.