Goodreads asked Francesca Hampton:

What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Francesca Hampton Sorry not to answer sooner - just noticed this! My reading this summer is mainly focused on researching the cultures of the steppes for a future possible novel. The Peoples of the Steppes by Stuart Legg stands out from all of them - a rare historian who gets his facts right but also writes so vividly you can almost see the people in front of you. Cecelia Holland, long one of my favorite writers of historical fiction has also, happily, produced a novel, Ghost on the Steppe, that I am reading, since it is set among the Mongols just after their first campaigns. Last but not at all least I can recommend the Midwife's Revolt by Jodi Daynard. I love writing that takes you so far into a story you forget you are reading and she definitely manages this - it is set during the American Revolution and told by a young woman who is a friend of John Adams wife Abigail.

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