Ulrica Hume: 3 books

"Poppies" is about first love--its sometimes dark and tender, fleeting nature--by award-winning writer Ulrica Hume. It appears in her new collection of interrelated tales, House of Miracles.

"Where was my real soul mate, I wanted to know, and why were there no twitchy children on my lap, and how had I been so dumb to believe that beauty’s currency would never run out? So, Paris…." Justine’s life is uncertain when she meets Miles Peabody on the Eurostar. She has lost her job, her fiancé,...

House of Miracles is about love—the romantic love of days gone by, first love, unrequited love, and the fragile intimacies of a couple living in the last part of the twentieth century. In these delightful, at times unsettling stories, we meet two very different women: baby boomer Janet MacDonald,...