Tag: Joanne Rendell

Out of the Shadows: A Q & A with Novelist Joanne Rendell

Published: September 7, 2010 | Last Updated: December 24, 2022 By | 1 Reply Continue Reading

Out of the Shadows (NAL Trade, 2010) is my friend and colleague Joanne Rendell’s third novel. Each of her books is beautifully written; their stories are rich and engaging and all touch upon some aspect of friendship. In this most recent book, Clara Fitzgerald is the protagonist whose recent losses have set her adrift, personally […]

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Women’s Book Groups: Not Only About The Book

Published: October 18, 2009 | Last Updated: February 9, 2023 By | Reply Continue Reading

Local book groups (also called reader groups) offer women an opportunity to get together in a cozy setting to talk, to think, to feel.

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Friendship by the Book: An Interview with the Author of Crossing Washington Square

Published: September 6, 2009 | Last Updated: October 5, 2020 By | Reply Continue Reading

A chick lit author hits her stride~ Once I started reading Joanne Rendell‘s new novel, Crossing Washington Square, I had a hard time putting it down. This gripping book tells the story of two strong women, both of them faculty in the English Literature Department of Manhattan U. The story takes the protagonists-polar opposites in […]

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Friendship by the Book: An interview with the author of The Professors’ Wives’ Club

Published: October 23, 2008 | Last Updated: February 8, 2021 By | Reply Continue Reading

The Professors’ Wives’ Club revolves around four women, so different from one another that they might even appear unlikely as friends.

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