Elizabeth Cowley Tyler: 5 books

It is October 17, 1849, Chopin has just taken his last labored breath. Solange Dudevant Clsinger, George Sands unloved daughter, is at his bedside, but Sand herself is nowhere to be found. Solange, deeply grieved by the loss of Chopin, with whom she feels she has always been in love, takes a letter...

Tavistock Square is a tale of roads taken, roads not taken, roads missed and last acts. The novel is a series of parallel narrations in which two long-lost lovers, Rebecca Janus, an American woman of a certain age, who comes at last to live in London, and Sydney Turner, a London actor and painter,...

Violet Hours is a literary potpourri containing Watershed, a novel fragment, Aftermath, a disquisition, The Ventriloquist, a polemic, Indian Passage and Mother’s Day, two short stories, a travel article, and Anna, a play.

Vanishing Point is a tale of fatal connections in which the lives of three men, a philandering judge, a disenchanted academic and an unrelenting defense attorney, are irrevocably altered by their involvement with Theresa Tavola, a troubled young woman, whose tragic death brings them all to heel.

Italian Hours features three short, interconnected novellas. Tricks of the Heart, set in Rome, explores the impact of the recent papal conclave on a group of Romans and expats. Holiness of the Hearts Affections finds a woman returning to Florence after the death of the estranged love of her life to...