Sarah Laurence

Although Small Island is now one of my favorite historical novels, I was so disappointed by how one character treated other people that I q...

Playa Sosúa in the Dominican Republic Inspired by her Dominican mother,   Angie Cruz  decided to write a realistic novel about immigrati...

After our back-to-back sabbaticals in Tokyo and at Oxford University, I've been busy offline, settling back home in Maine. During our...

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford University Ten years ago I started this blog before moving to England for a year long sabbatical . My kids...

Shinjuku is one of the twenty-three wards of Tokyo. I'm finally back to book blogging from Tokyo! Those who are accustomed to my se...

Entrance to the Meiji Shrine Inner Gardens in Tokyo Konichiwa from Tokyo! With both of our kids at college, I was free to join my...

High tide at Simpson's Point, photo by my husband Midway through a Maine summer, the water is finally "warm" enough to swi...

With my beta-reader Maya at Boothbay Harbor, Maine If you want to write young adult fiction, you should test your manuscript on your tar...

Before my daughter started her summer job, we enjoyed a staycation in Maine. At the top of her list was returning to Coastal Maine Botani...