Westporter Sybil Steinberg, contributing editor and former book review section editor for Publishers Weekly, returns with more ideas for your summer reading with her ever-popular talk on the best new reads.
Inspired by a real event in Scotland in 1845, this old-fashioned domestic novel revolves around a controversial book that predated Darwin’s theories of natural selection.
Clever and imaginative interlaced tales, each written in a different literary style, bind together characters in a remarkable range of times and places.
A mesmerizing, account of a family with12 children, six of whom were afflicted with schizophrenia, while scientists were striving to find the genetic factor in the disease.