Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Always Loved You | 2014 | Robin Oliveira | Buy |
| 2 | A Wild and Heavenly Place | 2024 | Robin Oliveira | Buy |
Robin Oliveira’s standalone novels move away from the Mary Sutter series while keeping her focus on nineteenth-century settings. I Always Loved You (2014) is set during La Belle Epoque in Paris, imagining the relationship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Since Cassatt destroyed their correspondence, the novel is a speculative reconstruction of a friendship that lasted decades.
A Wild and Heavenly Place (2024) follows two characters from Glasgow’s tenements to the frontier settlement of Seattle after the City of Glasgow Bank collapses. It is a story of separation, economic upheaval, and the long reach of a promise made across an ocean.