AMERICAN HISTORICAL NOVELS discussion
Flight of the Sparrow
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A bit about EMILY'S HOUSE
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The book sounds amazing! I love characters that grab your attention and won’t let you go. I love Emily Dickinson so the story of those around her life would definitely be of great interest. Thank you for writing the book.
Books wrote: "The book sounds amazing! I love characters that grab your attention and won’t let you go. I love Emily Dickinson so the story of those around her life would definitely be of great interest. Thank y..."Thank you! I agree--Emily Dickinson is fascinating. I've read a lot about her but am always up for more.
I couldn’t say it better. An Emily Dickinson fan. Sounds like a great book!
Like many people, I've been fascinated by Emily Dickinson for many years. After FLIGHT OF THE SPARROW was published I began taking a close look at her life. I guess I was hoping to figure out the source of her eccentricity. (Silly me—she's almost as mysterious as she was before, even after years of research.) Along the way I consulted everything I could find relating to Emily and her family and the town of Amherst. For quite a while I was caught up in the juicy story of her brother Austin's affair with the young college professor's wife, Mabel Loomis Todd. Then I read Aife Murray's MAID AS MUSE and encountered Margaret Maher, the Dickinson's Irish immigrant maid. When I learned that Margaret had been tasked with burning Emily's poems after her death, I knew I'd found my protagonist. And what a wonderful character she turned out to be. Like Emily herself, Margaret cast a spell on me that still lingers.