Posts Tagged ‘Dorothy Gilman Books’
A New Kind of Country
August 5th, 2008 | 
Author: Published in 1978
This thought to be an autobiographical book about Ms. Gilman. After her divorce she decides to move to Nova Scotia and describes her transition from raising two children to living alone and enjoying it. This book gets into a lot of philosophy. Kind of a slow read in some places but on the whole you get a sense of where the characters in her books come from.
A New Kind Of Country
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A Nun in the Closet
Originally published in 1975
From the moment Sister John and Sister Hyacinthe set out to explore the huge old house left to their abbey by a mysterious benefactor, their cloistered world begins to crumble. First there’s the wounded man hiding in an upstairs closet. Then there’s the old, battered suitcase stuffed with money, sitting at the bottom of the well — not to mention the apparitions in the night or the white powder they find in the pantry’s sugar jars that doesn’t taste like sugar at all….
This is probably one on my most favorite books to re-read of Dorothy Gilman’s. I know I have read it at least 6 times over the years and would like to have the time to read all of her books again this year as well!
A Nun in the Closet
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CLAIRVOYANT COUNTESS
Originally published in 1975
I have read this story at least 5 times over the years. Madame Karitska has a style all her own, a rare blend of psychic power, an exotic past, and an uncanny gift for common sense.
Madame Karitska is living a quiet life right now but when a chance encounter with Detective-Lieutenant Pruden of the Police Department catapults her into the midst of a seamier side of life, she must use all her resources to keep danger at bay.
Clairvoyant Countess
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Uncertain Voyage
Originally published in 1967
With a broken marriage and a nervous breakdown barely behind her, Melissa sails for Europe, reluctantly and absolutely on her own. When a strange traveler urgently asks her to deliver a book to a secret address, Melissa apprehensively agrees. Actually, she’s half hoping she’ll forget the entire unsettling incident and will find the book still packed away when she finally returns home.
But Melissa is unable to completely dismiss the episode. She realizes she’s been followed to Copenhagen, Paris and even into Majorca, where she’s to deliver the package
should she be so uncharacteristically bold. As free-floating anxiety turns to terrified dread, and her life is endangered, Melissa discovers something extraordinary about herself, something she might never have suspected….
Uncertain Voyage
