Books
THE TRANSFORMATION OF
BARTHOLOMEW FORTUNO
Publication 2010:
US-Henry Holt/McMillian
UK-Picador/McMillian
Set in P.T. Barnum’s American Museum in the New York of 1865, a human freak contemplates human appetites and longings, and what it means to be profoundly unique.
AWARDS:
2010 Winner, San Diego Book Award for Historic Fiction;
2011 Shortlisted Great Britain’s Historic Writers Association’s Début Novel
July 2010 Indie Pick of the Month, Notable
2010 Book-of-the-Month Club Alternative
Resources from that place and time ...
Special People
Shows some real cartes de visite
An encyclopaedia of performers in that era
The Charlatan (working title)
- IN PROGRESS
It's 1923 American. Young Alma's grifter father sends her to hide with her mother in the mill town of Lowell, Mass. When her mother disappears without a trace, Alma tracks her to Boston, but ends up working for a famous Boston spiritualist who is determined to trick the famous Harry Houdini into believing she can raise the dead. But many other strange and surprising things are raised when Alma and the spiritualist come together.
Hawk Hill
(working title)
- IN PROGRESS
Past and present collide when a woman who hears voices inherits the old country house near Petersham Mass. She uncovers a painting of an actress once accused of murdering a prostitute in 1836 New York and is driven, and then led, to prove the innocence of a woman long ago dead.