Full name: Private Altars: A Novel

Author: Katherine Mosby Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780425152362 0425152367

In the 1920s, a clash of cultures when a sophisticated New York bride arrives in a provincial town in West Virginia. The woman's problems multiply when her husband leaves her and she must face the town's hostility, alone with two children. A first novel. Similar books: Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell Point of No Return by John P. Marquand Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge Daughter of Silence by Morris West The Plot by Irving Wallace The Insult by Rupert Thomson The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd Want Not by Jonathan Miles Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson