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   "Farewell is wicked good..."
                               
-Kirkus Reviews


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Publications
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2018 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALIST:


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"Clever"

"compelling"


"Wilderhall uses drama and show business as stages for a well-crafted, character-driven mystery. It’s a fast, satisfying read, revealing the destructive nature of secrets and lies and the healing power of truth."                      -Foreword Clarion Reviews








A famed actress disappears and a theater critic determines to find her.
In the process, he encounters a supporting cast intent on refiguring the past.





www.PuddingdalePress.com


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House Party
"a party that's not to be missed." -Kirkus Reviews


a novel by Jeanne Farewell


On a visit to a friend's B&B in Vermont, Sadie Putnam has an unexpected encounter with a man she once knew. What she had hoped to be a restoring country weekend turns instead into a conflict that brings to the fore the past she wanted to forget. Her fellow guests seem to have more clarity on other people's problems than their own, and what began as a simple house party becomes a series of revealing and transfiguring encounters.

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Now available at www.PuddingdalePress.com
your local bookseller and amazon

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DuMaurier

Essays
  • "Our Mutual Friend: Henry Irving and America,” published in First Knight,  the Journal of the Irving Society, Vol. 10#2, London
  • Jeanne Farewell's essay on Sir Henry Irving (“Our Mutual Friend: Henry Irving and America”) has been published on the Victorian Web:           www.victorianweb.org
  • Essay on Anthony Trollope (“Can We Forgive Him? Trollope on America”) is published online in the Victorian Web:
          www.victorianweb.org
     
  • Miss Farewell’s essay on Frances Trollope, “Mrs. Trollope’s Vituperative View of Americans,” is on the Victorian Web www.victorianweb.org          



On Music:

"The Funny Fiddler," an article about violinist Tim Fain
www.blogcritics.org

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Travel Pieces:

  • "Table for One"
www.FarewellTravels.com

  •  "Dogs on the High Seas"                www.FarewellTravels.com
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"Table for One" Illustration by Jeanne Farewell
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ROOTLESS: AN ACADEMIC EXCURSION
A Novel

 available at
www.PuddingdalePress.com

your local bookseller and amazon

"Farewell is wicked good...
a tour de force in perceptive writing...
A clever contribution to that popular subgenre, the satirical academic novel"
              -Kirkus Reviews
                                                                            


The discovery of a Victorian novel by Henry Radcliff is big news in academia, providing much material for scholars, biographers, and pundits. When Professor Sarah Bolton arrives in Dublin for a tour that will take her and fellow members of the Henry Radcliff Society on a journey to retrace the author's footsteps, she little knows that the experience will prompt her to question her own steps as well.​

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Hilda's General Store
a novel by
Jeanne Farewell

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Available at:    www.PuddingdalePress.com
Local Booksellers and amazon
Illustration Copyright Jeanne Farewell
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Book Reviews

  • Hard Times: Dickens the Dishonorable?  Online at www.blogcritics.org   
  • Beethoven: The Composer as      Hero by Philippe  Autexier
      Bibliophilos Vol. IV #1

  • Mozart by Peter Gay      Bibliophilos Vol. 5 #2
  • Mozart:  A Cultural Biography      by Robert W.  Gutman
      Bibliophilos Vol.VII #1 
  • Cole Porter: A Biography by      William McBrien
       Bibliophilos Vol. IX #3
  • Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk Reviews in Brief online at blogcritics.org
  • Chick Lit and Postfeminism by Stephanie Harzewski at blogcritics.org
  • Skios by Michael Frayn
    blogcritics.org






Recent Publications

Farewell's essay
"The Bone Crushers"
is published online in
Modern Literature

https://www.modernliterature.org/the-bone-crushers-by-jeanne-farewell/ 


Farewell's essay
"Ruins"
is published online in
Flashes of Brilliance

https://www.flashesofbrilliance.org/non-fiction-ruins-by-jeanne-farewell/#.YiDidJZOmUk
 
Farewell's essay
"Hopeless"
may be read online in
Litro

https://www.litromagazine.com/usa/author/jeanne-farewell/
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Farewell's story
"The Boulder"
was published by the
Pennsylvania Literary Journal.
Purchase at

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08R29LGF3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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"Lunch in Litchfield"
was published online in 
The Manhattanville Review




World Literature Today
published Farewell's "Trio," with

"The Odious Orchestra"
"Dueling Duettists"
and
"The Persistent Pianist"


 "Trio" may be read in
World Literature Today at:


https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/september/trio-jeanne-farewell

The author may also be heard at World Literature Today in a reading and in piano performance.
Print edition also available.




Potomac Review
published the essay

"It Comes With the House"




Short Stories

  • The MacGuffin, 2013
    "Visual Culture"
  • Whetstone, Vol. 17    "Chinese Cooking”
  • Art Times, Vol. 16#2
         “My Day”      
  • Porcupine Literary Arts   Magazine Vol. 4#2
         “Nantucket Snow” 
  • Bibliophilos Vol. 5#  “Mountains of the Mind”                 
  • Words of Wisdom  Vol.  23#3        “Camp-Out in Maine”*  Pushcart Nomination    
  • Enigma, Winter 2005     “Lament in the Loire”
  • Words of Wisdom 25#2  “The Devil’s Walking Stick”
  • Byline, January 2004 "Rittenhouse Square"
  • Balanced Rock, 2014 "Grizzel's Garden"
  • Potomac Review, 2014 "It Comes With The House"
  • Balanced Rock, "The Minute Waltz"
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Also by Jeanne Farewell


                                                                                                               
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Cover Design by Jeanne Farewell






Recipient of a Featured Clarion 5-Star Review.

Full Review at
www.PuddingdalePress.com


Old Rye, a novel by Jeanne Farewell

To what extent should someone intervene in another person's life?  When Phoebe Bennington of Old Rye, Connecticut tries to save a friend from an imprudent marriage, she sets in motion a series of events that forever changes the lives of  those involved.

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"Old Rye is a compulsive read that is a near perfect mix of complexity and thrills. Farewell writes with a clear, concise voice that brings the world of the wealthy resort town and its inhabitants to life. "
                       -ForeWord Clarion Reviews

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"Old Rye is a perfect summer read—the ideal mix of thriller and romance to get lost in over a long, hot afternoon. It’s also a book that is sure to leave readers debating whether it’s better to get what you want or not. "

                            -ForeWord Clarion Reviews

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In The Lighthouse, a novel by Jeanne Farewell


"beautifully  written....

                    gorgeous  writing"
           
                    -1776 Productions

Kate Cullen is a dress designer who lives in a lighthouse on the Massachusetts coast. She is admired, inspiring, - and she has an unimpeachable character.

Or does she?  When Beth Beavers discovers Kate's diary with its disturbing confession, Beth struggles with whether or not to reveal the truth about Kate.  In the process, Beth comes to  terms with her own behavior as well.


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PRAISE FOR IN THE LIGHTHOUSE:

"the characters become people you want to laugh and to cry with.  She also writes in a way where the reader doesn’t want to put the book down, because you want to know where Farewell is taking you next. Part pure fiction, part human interest story, this book is must read."

 -Pacific Book Review    (Suzanne Gattis)








"Funny, pathetic and sympathetic in equal parts, Beth Beavers is an exceptional narrator... The narrative builds to a climactic confrontation scene that is perfectly executed....Entertaining and endearing, Farewell’s new novel is a well-tailored fit for fans of women-centered mysteries and books about female friendship."                                                -Kirkus Indie

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Nantucket Snow, Stories
by Jeanne Farewell


Meet Joshua Bilge, the company do-gooder who makes himself despised by everyone in the office. And Priscilla Bent, a cranky restaurant reviewer whose misery in having to stay in a French château is only exceeded by her misery in having to leave it.  An acquaintance with the persnickety party critic Benson can be hazardous - his own social conduct is far more reprehensible than that which he criticizes.  Also present are the Cherry Hill Players, a troupe of theater people whose identities are predicated on appropriating the identities of others.  These and more make their appearance in the fourteen tales of Jeanne Farewell's Nantucket Snow.