The House on Swiss Avenue: Historical Fiction - Softcover

Sandell, Irene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482610345 ISBN 13: 9781482610345

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Robyn Merrill hopes that starting a new life in a new place will help to heal her broken heart, but the path she chooses and the people she encounters are not what she expected. Secluded in her family mansion, Adeline Sinclair has spent a lifetime devoted to memories and to the history of her family, only to question her choices in her twilight years. Her house on Swiss Avenue beings the two women together to unlock secrets that alter each of their lives, and help them make peace with the past and welcome the future.

About this title

About the Author:

Irene Sandell's awarding winning novels combine her love of Texas history with her passion for writing. She collects the "side bits" of history to make the stories of Texas come to life for the reader and tell the heartfelt adventures of her characters woven into true places and events.

Review:

Irene Sandell is first a historian specializing in real Texas history, the stuff you won t find in the textbooks that glorify the legends of the state, sometimes fictitiously. She s captured a genre in her historical fiction that stands alone. The House on Swiss Avenue, her third history-based novel and best yet, weaves a factual account of the very early days of Dallas with two contemporary characters separated in age by two generations into a nifty tale that captures the ends to which some would go to destroy and profit from historical treasures. Once you ve read it, you ll under-stand how Dallas came to be what it is today a sprawling metropolis and where the roots of that sprawl came from.
The House on Swiss Avenue is a good, well-developed read. --George Arnold

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482610345
• ISBN 13: 9781482610345
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 276