Writing has been Tam's voice since the age of fourteen. She writes stories set in the past that feature sassy and sensitive women characters. Her fiction gives readers the experience of women struggling to carve out an identity for themselves during eras when their options were limited. Her stories are set mostly around the Bay Area because she adores sourdough bread, Ghirardelli chocolate, and San Francisco history.
Tam is the author of the Adele Gossling Mysteries which takes place in the early 20th century and features suffragist and epistolary expert Adele Gossling whose talent for solving crimes doesn't sit well with her small town's conventional ideas about women. The first book of the series reached #1 in its category on both Amazon and Apple and went into the Top 100 Kindle Free Books on Amazon. It continues to appear on the list of popular books in its category.
Tam is also working on a new series, the Grave Sisters Mysteries, about three sisters who own a funeral home and help the county D.A. solve crimes in a 1920s small California town.
In addition, Tam writes historical fiction about women breaking loose from the social and psychological expectations of their time. She has a 4-book series set in the 1890s, the Waxwood Series, and a post-World War II short story collection, Lessons From My Mother's Life.
Although Tam left her heart in San Francisco, she lives in the Midwest because it's cheaper. When she's not writing, she's devouring everything classic (books, films, art, music), concocting yummy plant-based dishes, and exploring her new riverside town.
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Waxwood Series
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Vivian has more in common with her nemesis than she wants to believe.
Waxwood, 1900: For Vivian Alderdice, the twentieth century begins with a new start. Now a working woman and progressive reformer, she's forsaken the elegance of Nob Hill for the more modest Waxwood. She's laid Penelope Alderdice's specter to rest at last. Granted, her life isn't the one she was born into. Instead of a Nob Hill socialite, she sells strawberry sodas at her friend's drugstore and helps working-class women improve their education. But she has no complaints about the calmness and predictability of her days.
Vivian's peaceful existence is thrown into turmoil when the man who ruined her brother's life appears like another specter she must exorcise.
At first, Vivian hates him with a passion. But when she sees how his own undiscovered past has destroyed him, leaving him helpless in the hands of a cousin who hates him worse than she does, she finds herself wanting to help.
Is it his journey Vivian will discover in the dark forest of guilt and betrayal or her own?
Read the powerful conclusion of the Alderdice family saga set in the enlightened times of the Progressive Era.
Discover for yourself whether Vivian will find peace and forgiveness in the future.
What reviewers are saying:
"Author Tam May has done an artful job staying in character and context, scene and setting of this often overlooked and elusive era of modern history." - Lisa Lickel, author and blogger, Living our Faith Out Loud
"With a very interesting and complex main character, an enticing storyline, and wonderful writing this is the kind of story that stays with you after the end of the book."
"This one was a page-turner and I felt caught by the intensity of the story, wanting to turn the page and wondering what might be around the corner."
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THE WAXWOOD SERIES
The Specter (Waxwood Series: Book 1)
False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 2)
Pathfinding Women (Waxwood Series: Book 3)
Title : Dandelions: An Early 20th Century Friendship Novel
EAN : 9780998338538
Publisher : Tam May
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