Novels
- Private Altars (1995)
- The Season of Lillian Dawes (2002)
- Twilight (2005)
Non fiction
- The Book of Uncommon Prayer (1996)
Novels Book Covers
Non fiction Book Covers
Katherine Mosby Books Overview
Private Altars
A richly textured portrait of two generations of the Daniels family explores the lives of a dynasty of eccentric misfits and outsiders in a small West Virginia town dedicated to its own stagnation. A first novel.
The Season of Lillian Dawes
From the acclaimed writer whose first novel , Private Altars,, comes a story of driving lyrical force set in Manhattan in the 1950s. When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother Spencer in New York. Rather than a punishment, this becomes an exhilarating invitation to a dazzling world, from smoking cigars at the Plaza Hotel to weekend house parties filled with tennis and cocktails. It is in this heady atmosphere from white gloved Park Avenue to literary Greenwich Village that Gabriel first glimpses the elusive Lillian Dawes. Free spirited and mysterious, Lillian captures the imaginations of those in ‘all the best circles,’ including both brothers. As their lives entwine, so begins the powerful and poignant unraveling of innocence. ‘There is, in most lives, a defining moment, a point dividing time into before and after…
.’ Mosby beautifully traces the trajectory of consequence that will change all three lives. The Season of Lillian Dawes is a wondrous novel that chronicles a young man’s first tour of the adult world.
Twilight
Award winning novelist Katherine Mosby examines the complex landscape of adultery while depicting a woman’s unlikely blossoming in the face of war. Lavinia Gibbs defies social convention and family expectations in New York in the 1930s when she breaks off a passionless engagement to a prominent banker. Instead of surrendering to an invisible spinsterhood, Lavinia moves to Paris, where, on the verge of World War II, her sexual and political awakening collide in an unforgettable tale.
The Book of Uncommon Prayer
This prayer book is arranged around the liturgical hours of the day matin, lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers and compline and contains three prayers for each hour of the day. The prayers combine both love poetry and spiritual poetry; a prayer of the heart.