Carole Boyd
1) Villette
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Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe, but then she falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel.
2) Mr. Fox
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It is not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently. Mary challenges Mr. Fox to join her in stories of their own devising; and so, through different...
3) Middlemarch
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Enter the provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830, where the individual destinies of tradespeople, middle classes, and country gentry shape and are shaped by the community.