Patricia Henley

• May-1999
• / Literary
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When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient - a young woman who had recently given birth - she decides it is time to go home, because to care for the children of war you have to cut off pieces of your heart. Her travels ...

• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction
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An impressive overview of a writer whose career is still climbing, 'Worship of the Common Heart' allows us a rare opportunity to observe twenty years in the evolution of a writer of uncommon talent and heart. Emotionally complex, achingly real, these...

• Sep-2002
• / Contemporary Romance
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National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage.From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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An impressive overview of a writer whose career is still climbing, 'Worship of the Common Heart' allows us a rare opportunity to observe twenty years in the evolution of a writer of uncommon talent and heart. Emotionally complex, achingly rea...

• Oct-2011
• / Literary
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In this collection of elegant, moving stories, Patricia Henley explores the many bonds and betrayals among women: mothers, daughters, lovers, friends. Her characters, at once familiar and surprising, make their way through grief and discovery, reveal...