In Innocents at Home, award-winning author Linda Ulleseit confirms what those of us who have read her previous novels already knew. She is an exceptionally creative historical fiction writer. It takes a rare talent to be able to juxtapose the loves, lives, and careers of two women friends in relation to their experience with Mark Twain. Leave it to Ms. Ulleseit to do just that. Through an absorbing narrative that spans three decades from the mid to late 1800s, Innocents at Home carries us from a voyage to the Holy Land to New York and to the West Coast. Besides getting to know the two protagonists intimately, what I enjoyed most was Ms. Ulleseit’s authentic depiction of how society, culture, and family interacted during the Gilded Age. Highly recommended for those ready to immerse themselves in an authentic reconstruction of a time in our past we should never forget.

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