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June 3, 2025

REVIEW: Mrs Spy by M. J. Robotham

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / Agent/Spies/Undercover / betrayal / London / older characters / single mother / Widowed Heroine5 Comments

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Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency’s most treacherous secrets. Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum. She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing ... more >

April 23, 2025

REVIEW: The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / Book-club / female friendship / feminism / found family / Historical / women's rights / Womens-Fiction3 Comments

Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in her buttoned-up suburb. By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman’s dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia–one of Northern Virginia’s most ... more >

March 27, 2025

REVIEW: The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree by India Hayford

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / dysfunctional family / family relationships / PTSD / revenge / Southern Gothic / strong women / war veterans2 Comments

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Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she’s wandered throughout the South, escaping a mental hospital in Alabama, working for a Louisiana circus, and dancing at a hoochy-kootch in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she’s allowed her winding ... more >

February 20, 2025

REVIEW: Come Fly With Me by Camille Di Maio

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / domestic violence / female friendship / Historical / travel / Womens-Fiction4 Comments

It’s 1962, the dawn of the jet-set era. Hope takes flight for two Pan Am stewardesses navigating an adventurous new life in a novel about love, friendship, and escape by the bestselling author of The Memory of Us and Until We Meet. Welcome to a glamorous gateway to the jet ... more >

January 23, 2025

REVIEW: Let’s Call Her Barbie by Renée Rosen

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1950s / 1960s / 1970s / Business woman / culture / Historical / Historical fiction / novelization / strong women / toys4 Comments

She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she’s setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment ... more >

January 15, 2025

REVIEW: Behind Every Good Man by Sara Goodman Confino

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / divorce / First-Person / Historical / Maryland / politics / strong women / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: Behind Every Good Man by Sara Goodman Confino

A wronged wife goes toe to toe with her cheating husband at the polls in this hilarious and heart-lifting novel by the bestselling author of Don’t Forget to Write. It’s a doozy of a bad day for Beverly Diamond when she catches her husband, Larry, in a compromising position with ... more >

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