PRAISE FOR THE ANGLOPHILE'S NOTEBOOK:
"How many ways does the past haunt the present? Can it give you the
courage to finally follow your heart? Part literary mystery, part
how-to-reinvent-your-life, and 100% delicious, Sunday Taylor's
entrancing novel about Charlotte Brontë will have you captivated from
page one. Get ready to put the outside world on hold. You don't just
read this book, you live it."~ Lisa Borgnes Giramonti, author of NOVEL INTERIORS
"If
a book could be a warm cup of tea, and a cashmere blanket to cuddle up
in by the fire, then that is exactly what The Anglophile’s Notebook
would be. I read a great deal of the book while curled up watching the
mist rise of the lake behind our home, thinking about the wind swept,
misty British moors, romanticized by the writings of the Bronte
sisters. Sunday Taylor’s book is part love letter to the Brontes and
the British moors, part literary history lesson, part romance, and part
mystery. But even with the romantic and mysterious elements, there are
no moments of stress or strife created by reading the book, It is
simply a jaunt through London and the British country side, replete
with personal revelations for the characters, and littered with
cultural history nuggets about British literature. In short, this is a
book to read if you want to bring your blood pressure down after the
harrowing year that was 2020. Or if you yourself are a self-professed
Anglophile, then this book is not one you should miss!"~ LitBuzz.com
"The Anglophile's Notebook
by Sunday Taylor offers a taste of everything that makes a reader fall
in love with a book: it is mostly set in the cozy fall/winter ambience
of an 18th century Yorkshire country house on the English moors and it
is filled with fascinating historical details about the lives of the
Brontë family (you will enjoy these stories even if you haven't read
the Brontës), and sympathetic characters that feel like they could be
your friends. Its delicious details made the bibliophile, the Anglophile
and the foodie in me swoon. Taylor notably develops her characters
slowly and beautifully with a few mysteries and a couple of sweet
second-chance-at-love stories. Claire Easton is an American writer who
writes a magazine column called "The Anglophile's Notebook."
She travels to England to do research for her book about Charlotte
Brontë. She has been in a painful marriage with few friends in the US,
and along with her literary discoveries, she finds new love, friendships
and unexpected family in England."~ RipeReads.com
"This is
the book I would write if I had the talent to write a novel. It’s the
story about an English lit lover who impulsively moves to England. I
get it! I understand why the protagonist, Claire Easton, would do
something a little goofy like head off on an extended work trip to
England at the same time her marriage was hitting the rocks. And why,
when her marriage falls apart, she decides to stay. Claire is a 40-year
old writer and magazine editor who goes to London on assignment for
her travel magazine and with a plan to research a book on her favorite
author, Charlotte Brontë. A couple of lucky breaks put her on the trail
of a Brontë discovery and a new romance. When Claire’s friend sets her
up with a collector of Brontë memorabilia to help him organize his
collection, Claire starts traveling between her new boyfriend in London
and Phillip’s stately home in Yorkshire, near Hawarth Parsonage, the
Brontë family home. Like in the Victorian novels Claire loves, she may
find more in Yorkshire than she anticipates. The story takes place over
Claire’s first year in England, during which she goes through a
divorce, falls in love, turns her career in an exciting new direction,
meets new friends, faces adversity, and starts to put down roots in her
new home. This all unfolds against the backdrop of a cozy, literary
England of independent bookshops, homey flats, chats in small museums,
lunches in Covent Garden cafes, ancient pubs, and charming villages.
Don’t come to this book looking for trauma and anguish. The
Anglophile’s Notebook is all about the romantic ideal of starting over at 40 and having all the pieces tumble into place."~Rose City Reader.com
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ABOUT THE ANGLOPHILE'S NOTEBOOK:
The Anglophile’s Notebook is a
literary mystery set in England. Claire Easton travels from Los Angeles
to London to research a book on her favorite author, Charlotte Brontë.
While seeking Brontë’s secrets, she discovers her own. The Anglophile’s Notebook
will whisk the reader away to literary London and the beautifully wild
countryside of Yorkshire, home to the Brontë sisters.
Brimming with
writerly ghosts, enchanting bookstores, cozy pubs, English country
gardens, and memorable characters, this novel is for anyone who has
found their imagination in the gardens of rural England or a
two-hundred-year-old bookstore in London and felt utterly alive.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
PHOTO CREDIT: ALEX DE CORDOBA
Sunday Taylor grew up in Pennsylvania and Connecticut and attended Bates
College in Maine. A graduate of the Master of Arts program in English
Literature at UCLA, she spent the last four decades in California and
currently lives in Los Angeles.
Taylor is married with two grown
daughters and two granddaughters. She journeys to England every year,
reads Jane Eyre every autumn and identifies as an Anglophile. This is her first book.
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