Celia Hayes | August 29, 2010
The title is a little deceptive, in that this is not a Bible-based retelling of the story of Noah, his family, their animals and an ark which enables them all to survive a flood. It is rather an attempt to recreate a very particular world, that world of Neolithic humans, over 7,000 years ago, living [...]
Celia Hayes | June 28, 2010
The American Civil War began nearly a hundred and fifty years ago and ended after four years of savage fighting. There is no one left alive today with first-hand memories of that paroxysm of incredible violence which shattered the United States and then roughly stitched it together again. And the memories, especially in the South [...]
Celia Hayes | May 10, 2010
This is a curiously old-fashioned historical romance, which should provide a satisfactory reading experience for those who do have a fondness for such. The hero and heroine have nothing more than one seriously intense petting session over the course of an eight-year long love-hate-mutual-attraction romance, until their inevitable marriage in the last chapter. (Sorry, I [...]
Celia Hayes | March 17, 2010
Once there was a time, at the turn of the century before the century before, when the United States was an infant country clinging to the Atlantic seaboard and just barely clawed together out of the original colonies by the stubborn valor of a handful of men. But even at that early date, twenty years [...]
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