B E Andre, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/beandre/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 07:00:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Authenticity in Novels http://booksbywomen.org/authenticity-in-novels/ http://booksbywomen.org/authenticity-in-novels/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2015 06:45:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14185 At some point in the 1980s I came across Almonds and Raisins, a family saga by Maisie Mosco. Two things drew me to Maisie’s work: it described the Jewish immigrant experience in the first half of the 20th century, and it was set in my home town, Manchester. Maisie, who was born in Oldham in […]

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