SAINT by Adrienne Young978125084676111/29/22Wednesday BooksAges 12-18 E-galley available on Edelweiss Adrienne Young’s latest YA novel takes us back to the world of The Narrows—several years before the events of FABLE and NAMESAKE—to tell the story of Fable’s parents as their love story begins. Both Saint and Isolde are running from something. Isolde is on the Know More » […]
Tag: prequel
#ThrillerThursday (5/9/19)
From a series prequel (now on PBS!) to dogs with jobs–welcome to this week’s Thriller Thursday! THE ROAD TO GRANTCHESTER by James Runcie “Runcie’s exceptional seventh novel featuring Sidney Chambers (after 2017’s SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE PERSISTENCE OF LOVE), a prequel, opens with an extended section set during WWII… While Sidney has only one passing Know More » […]
#ThrillerThursday Excerpt from THE VANISHING MAN
Charles Finch has long captivated readers with his gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox series. Now in THE VANISHING MAN–the second in a prequel trilogy following THE WOMAN IN THE WATER–a young Charles Lenox is caught up in the case of a missing painting–a mystery with deeper secrets and wider consequences than he realized. Read an exclusive excerpt Know More » […]
Head over heels for HAVISHAM
Everyone loves Ronald Frame's HAVISHAM, and for good reason. The story is creative (it's a prelude to Charles Dickens's classic GREAT EXPECTATIONS), the package is gorgeous, and the reviews are glowing:
“Before she took to pacing about her cobwebbed London manse in a tattered wedding gown, literature’s most famous jilted bride, Miss Havisham, ran the family brewery. Expectations are great for this engaging ‘prequel’ to Dickens’ classic.” —Good Housekeeping, New Book Picks
“In HAVISHAM, his prequel to Great Expectations, Ronald Frame colorfully imagines the traumas that doomed the tortured Miss Havisham.” —Vanity Fair, Hot Type column
“If you love Great Expectations, you'll bask in the light of Frame's detailed and atmospheric prequel focusing on the dark and tragic Miss Havisham.” —Shelf Awareness
“An excellent example of a present-day writer taking on a classic, HAVISHAM gives the reader food for thought while reviving one of the great characters of Victorian literature.” —BookPage
"An intelligently imagined Dickens prequel." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review and Best Book of the Year selection
More reviews are still to come from USA Today and the New York Times Book Review. Film and TV rights have been acquired for adaptation by BBC producer Christopher Aird (Call the Midwife), but until then, you can watch the lovely book trailer.
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