Book Review | “The Orchid Hour” by Nancy Bilyeau

Nancy Bilyeau offers her readers an immersive experience into the milieu of 1923 New York City with the historical novel The Orchid Hour. Set within the insular Italian community called Little Italy, when Prohibition was fuelling organised crime and proliferation of speakeasies (a new word for me), the heroine in this captivating and a poignant …