The Right-Hand Shore: A Novel Paperback Christopher Tilghman

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Although it took a while for me to get into this novel, I loved the author's style. I felt the love between the characters and couldn't help but root for them. The combination of historic relevance and deep character development made this novel a wonderful read. Now, I'm going to eat a juicy peach!

from libsue

Really good historical fiction that got mired in a love story that could have been left out. There was so much great about this story - structure, characters, history, but when Tilghman got involved in the story of Thomas and Beal he just lost me. Added to a love story that needn't have been -the...

from delphimo

The story starts as an interesting story about a woman attempting to find a male heir to inherit the legacy of The Retreat, a huge enclave in Maryland. The woman is dying of cancer, and before she reaches her decision, the reader journeys into the history of the house and land. The trek becomes t...

from whitreidtan

Mary Bayly is dying. She is dying quickly and painfully. And she has no close family to whom to leave her ancestral plantation, Mason's Retreat. She's determined that this land, which may or may not carry a curse, needs to go to a Mason (Mary's own mother was a Mason) and so she has searched out ...