Finished Sally Gunning's
The Widow's War last week. I'd read Gunning's novel
Bound, which features some of the same characters, and liked it very much, so when I was poking around for historical fiction to read, this novel popped up. Her central heroine of the novel, Lydia Berry, is a newly widowed woman in a Cape Cod town in the 1760s. She flounts many of the conventions of the day in an attempt to gain her own independence, especially from a terrible son-in-law. Gunning establishes Lyddie so well, including her inner thoughts and conundrums, that she creates a protagonist worth rooting for. I liked this novel a lot, and would recommend it.
I also finished Arthur C. Clarke's
Fountains of Paradise, but that review will go in another thread, obviously
