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Margaret Ann Spence

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Margaret Ann Spence writes about women, the choices they make, and what happens next.

An avid baker and much less successful organic gardener, she draws on the mishaps and joys of these pursuits within the family mysteries unwrapped in her novels, Joyous Lies and Lipstick on the Strawberry.

Lipstick on the Strawberry won the Romantic Elements Category in the First Coast Romance Writers 2015 Beacon Contest. The novel was a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award and in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Awards.

Margaret’s second novel, Joyous Lies, released February 15, 2021.

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Margaret Ann Spence Since it is the anniversary of Jane Austen's death, I've been re-reading her timeless books. So this week, it is England of about 1815.
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Since it is the anniversary of Jane Austen's death, I've been re-reading her timeless books. So this week, it is England of about 1815.
Love to spend a day in her shoes. Glad not to live there, really. Love my laptop, glad not to have to write with cramped hands and inky fingers.
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Margaret Ann Spence I've just finished The Two Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman and Crystal King's Feast of Sorrows. About to start another book by the brilliant Elena…moreI've just finished The Two Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman and Crystal King's Feast of Sorrows. About to start another book by the brilliant Elena Ferrante. I just loved her Neapolitan novels.(less)
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[image error]By Susan JubyHarper Collins, 2011
From the time of the last recession comes this very funny book by an author who usually writes YA (Young Adult) fiction. The satire pumps it up to adult level. Prudence, an idealistic 24-year-old from Brooklyn, inherits a dilapidated farm on Vancouver Island.

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