Featured Event
Debut author Jane Yang joins us to talk about her exciting new novel, The Lotus Shoes. This novel is based in China in the 1800s and follows the lives of two young girls. It begins when family tragedy causes Little Flower to be sold into slavery to Linjing’s wealthy family. From childish jealousy they two girls grow into womanhood and have to decide if they’re going to be arch rivals or friends in order to secure a future for them both.
About Jane Healey
Jane Healey is the author of The Beantown Girls, a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller, The Secret Stealers, which was an Amazon First Reads Editor’s Pick and a Historical Novel Society’s Editors’ Choice, and her debut, The Saturday Evening Girls Club. Goodnight from Paris is her newly released novel from Lake Union Publishing. Jane is also the host of Historical Happy Hour, a monthly webinar and podcast featuring interviews with premier historical fiction authors and their latest novels. She and her family lives outside Boston.
JANE'S NOVELS
HISTORICAL HAPPY HOUR
Hosted by Jane Healey, Historical Happy Hour is a live interview and podcast featuring premiere historical fiction authors and their latest novels.
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COMING IN JULY 2025
A female codebreaker puts her future and her heart on the line in a stirring novel about love, loyalty, betrayal, and Cold War spy games.
This page-turner has all the goodies historical fiction lovers will devour: Cold War espionage, a brilliant, fiery female codebreaker, spies in love (yes, please), Girl Code, passion, and suspense.
This is a terrific read: ripe with romance, filled with nail-biting suspense, and a celebration of the power of female friendship.
Goodnight from Paris
Jane Healey excels at showing ordinary women rising to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances. You'll be cheering for real-life forgotten heroine, American movie star Drue Leyton-Tartiere, as she turns down the chance to leave embattled France for Hollywood, and, instead, defies the Nazi occupiers, risking her life again and again in the cause of freedom. A riveting story of true heroism.”
The Secret Stealers
The Secret Stealers is a flawlessly crafted and engrossing story of the unexpected ways in which war changes who we are. Once again, Healey gifts readers with her trademark characters: everyday women who prove themselves to be extraordinary—women so relatable, so endearing, and so brave that they jump off the page and into our hearts.
The Secret Stealers was an Amazon Editor’s First Reads Pick, one of the New York Post’s Best New Books April 2021, a Historical Novel Society’s Editor’s Choice and one of Cosmopolitan’s Best Historical Novels of 2021.
The Beantown Girls
A WWII historical fiction novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as the war’s brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines.
A fascinating novel about a little-known wartime sacrifice, The Beantown Girls is lovingly crafted, heartbreaking, and illuminated with hope. I couldn’t put it down!
The Beantown Girls is a Washington Post and Amazon Charts Bestseller!
One of BookBub’s Biggest World War II Novels Hitting Shelves This Year!
The Saturday Evening Girls Club
The writing is so smooth that readers may not consciously notice all the cultural details tucked in.…Fans of warmhearted sagas should enjoy this.
Watch my webinar about the story behind The Saturday Evening Girls Club
Upcoming LIVE Events
New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff joins us again on the pod to talk about her latest novel, Last Twilight in Paris. It’s a gripping historical mystery set in 1953 London and post-war Paris. Louise, a housewife and former Red Cross worker, stumbles upon a necklace in a secondhand shop that unravels secrets tied to a Nazi-occupied Parisian department store, the tragic death of her friend Franny, and the harrowing story of Helaine, a woman imprisoned during the war. As Louise follows the trail of clues, she confronts buried truths, resurgent dangers, and the enduring power of love and resistance in humanity’s darkest times.
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Shara Moon joins us to talk about her latest novel, Let Us March On. This is a powerful novel inspired by the life of Lizzie McDuffie, a maid in FDR’s White House who boldly proclaimed herself the President’s “Secretary-On-Colored-People’s-Affairs.” Lizzie’s story unveils her transformation from a devoted wife and White House staffer to an unsung Civil Rights crusader who tirelessly advocated for justice and equality. This stirring tale sheds light on the courage and impact of a forgotten heroine who worked from within the halls of power to change history.
