Top read of 2015: A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor

What they say: The author of the USAToday andNew YorkTimesbestselling novel The Girl WhoCame Home has once again created an unforgettable historical novel. Step into the world of Victorian London, where the wealth and poverty exist side by side. This is the story of two long-lost sisters, whose lives take different paths, and the young woman who will be transformed by their experiences.

In 1912, twenty-year-old Tilly Harper leaves the peace and beauty of her native Lake District for London...