Roberta Grimes's Blog, page 53
November 20, 2013
Sharing with you my formative night
Perhaps many folks can point to a single moment that transformed their lives, although for most that watershed moment likely happened when they were a bit older. I was eight years old on that singular night in April of 1955 when I went to bed as a normal kid. Then I was awakened just before […]
November 7, 2013
‘My Thomas’ a literary tour de force [a review]
Below is a review of my novel, My Thomas, that appeared in The Patriot Ledger: Roberta Grimes’s first major novel is a marvel, a historical novel whose detail, scope and depth seem much greater than the book’s slightly more than 300 pages. My Thomas captures the complicated nature and depth of Thomas Jefferson’s wife, Martha, […]
Review by Publishers Weekly
The following review of my book My Thomas appeared in Publishers Weekly: Cast in the form of a diary written by Thomas Jefferson’s wife, Martha, Grimes’s first novel chronicles the years from their courtship in 1770 to her death in 1782. Atmospheric and richly detailed, with exact accounts of such contemporary activities as leaching dye […]
