Vanessa Lafaye: 4 books

‘Exquisite’ Veronica Henry Before A Christmas Carol there was… Miss Marley A seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill Orphans Clara and Jacob Marley live by their wits, scavenging for scraps in the poorest alleyways of London, in the shadow of the workhouse. Every night, Jake promises his little...

Nel luglio del 1932 l’afa stringe in una morsa Heron Key, in Florida. L’aria è completamente immobile. Le nubi sono ammucchiate come cotone all’orizzonte. Le mangrovie hanno un odore muschiato e i pavoni strillano sui rami. Missy è, tuttavia, eccitata e felice. Si prepara per il barbecue del...

Under a Dark Summer Sky is a stunning debut novel, at once a love story set in a time of great turmoil and a vivid depiction a vicious hurricane. Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war....

Meet Alicia Cortez: survivor, healer...murderer? 1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. Mixed-race Alicia Cortez arrives in Key...