Dr. Alice M
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Janet Benton:
Our book club will be discussing your book this Tuesday, Nov. 14. What additional items would you want to add about the historical background? Is there anything you wish all book clubs would include in the discussion of your book? Thanks Alice Laurendine
Janet Benton
Dear Alice, I'm so pleased to hear that your book club is reading my book. As for historical background, the author's note at the end of the book supplies a lot of background on the novel's underpinnings, and if anyone has specific questions, I would be pleased to answer them here. if you'd like. regarding things to discuss, there is a discussion guide that my publisher's marketing person and I wrote for the Penguin Random House site. it is easily available for download at my website, www.JanetBentonauthor.com. There is a tab called Excerpt and Discussion Questions. One thing that I always like to mention when I visit a book club, if I get the chance,, is that my novel is in part an homage to so many Victorian novels I have loved, including Jane Eyre, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and The Scarlet Letter. I don't know if that will add to your discussion, but maybe it will. Let me know how it goes! And please pass my best wishes to the group. Janet
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Grumpybookworm
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Janet Benton:
I absolutely loved your debut novel. I got it from the library, but I will have to get a hard copy of this one because it's a keeper. There are so many incredibly powerful stories coming out about women and so many of them (like yours) offer wonderful commentary on the plight of women throughout history and even still today. My question is what stories about women have inspired you and your own writing?
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