Book Review: A Widow in Waiting by Anne B. Walsh

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This is an historical fiction set in England in the year 1786. The characters are entirely fictional, though the places are accurate, and there is just enough of a fantastical element to make you question our own reality. It starts off with a young widow returning home from the trip on which her husband was killed, and follows her as she attempts to navigate Englands high society while keeping what truly happened a secret. She is, as the title suggests, a Widow in Waiting, as in in, waiting for her traditional mourning period to end so that she may move on with her life. Anne B. Walsh has a wonderful way of bringing not only characters alive through the written world, but the world in which they live in as well. Each of her characters has a clear and distinct personality and history, none of them are wooden and all are very separate from one another.