Fiction

Author: Various; Anthology Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen’s Unsung Characters is a delightful collection built on a clever, readerly question: what if Austen’s overlooked secondary women were given the fuller lives they deserved? The pieces feel like affectionate “afterstories,” imagining futures, choices, and small rebellions for characters who were often constrained…

Author: Lea Geller Genre: Women’s Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Lea Geller’s The Truth and Other Hidden Things follows Bells Walker, a forty-something mother who suddenly finds herself in that strange middle season of life—her children growing independent, her role shifting, and her sense of being seen slowly fading. When an unexpected pregnancy collides with a husband who doesn’t…