JANE SMILEY Early Warning. Reviewed by Robyne Young

JANE SMILEY Early Warning. Reviewed by Robyne Young

Major events in US history provide the backdrop to this continuing family saga. I finished Some Luck, the first instalment in Jane Smiley’s trilogy, The Last Hundred Years, highly anticipating this next volume, Early Warning, that would continue her story of an Iowan...
JANE SMILEY Some Luck. Reviewed by Robyne Young

JANE SMILEY Some Luck. Reviewed by Robyne Young

Smiley returns to Iowa, the setting of her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel A Thousand Acres, in this first book of an epic new trilogy. It was chance that took the 19-year-old Jane Smiley to Iowa in 1972, and some further luck that gave her a place in the renowned Iowa...