Megan Chance is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of more than twenty novels, including A Dangerous Education, A Splendid Ruin, Bone River, and An Inconvenient Wife. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest.
Chance's new novel is Glamorous Notions.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Chance's reply:
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Okay, this book … There’s so much to be said about it that can’t really be said without spoiling it, but I can tell you this: it’s set in the early 1960s in the Dutch countryside, which has finally recovered from WWII. The story deals with Isabel and her brother’s fiancée, Eva, who comes to stay at their family house—where only Isabel currently lives—while the brother is on a long business trip.Eva and Isabel try to get along, but they just don’t like one another, and Isabel is paranoid and suspicious. As their relationship grows and changes, we begin to see that though the land is healed, the scars from the war may still be there in other, more psychological and emotional ways.
This book is beautiful and subtle and heart-wrenching. It’s a love story, and a story about obsession, and it is a book I simply can’t forget. Provocative, sensual, compelling, yes. It’s all those things, plus it taught me something about the war that I didn’t know, though really it’s not about WWII so much as it is about the fact that wars never really end. They lodge themselves in our bodies and our minds, changing our chemistry in ways perhaps both good and bad but always forever.
Just a stunning novel. Read it.
My Book, The Movie: A Splendid Ruin.
The Page 69 Test: A Splendid Ruin.
Q&A with Megan Chance.
The Page 69 Test: A Dangerous Education.
My Book, The Movie: A Dangerous Education.
Writers Read: Megan Chance (February 2023).
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