This week, we feature a dive into the science behind Sherlock Holmes’s methods and a lovely work of fiction about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love.
Historical Fiction ‘If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love’
By Mary Calvi
This novel takes us to Boston in the late 1870s, when Harvard student Theodore Roosevelt falls in love with Alice Hathaway Lee. Calvi’s careful descriptions of the dress, food, and manners of this era and her use of real letters exchanged by Teddy and Alice bring this era to life as we watch this slow, lovely romance wend its way to the altar. Calvi’s thorough research and her grasp of the sweetness and innocence of these two young people give readers historical fiction at its finest….