My Lady Jane is such a delightful take on Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days, spinning it into a humorous and magical story. Her fourth book, Off Script, releases in January.This book came highly recommended by The Orangutan Librarian and after reading it, I totally see why. A lover of travel, speaking in accents, and experiencing new cultures, she has also lived in Israel, Brazil, and the American South, and she now calls Arizona home. Originally from Canada, she attended college in the States and holds a BA in Philosophy from Brigham Young University. Kate Watson is a young adult writer, wife, mother, and the tenth of thirteen children.

Their books have quickly become a few of my favorite things.

While I don’t plan to add any more kids into the mix, I do very much plan to read everything these brilliant ladies write in the future. And for a short while, my baby blues slipped away. Every time those jerky postpartum hormones made me start crying for no reason, I opened my eReader and immersed myself in the whimsical and hilarious world the Janies created. These books are as delightful and humorous and heartfelt and sassy and subversive as I could have hoped. I learned this when I randomly burst into tears while watching a video of a kitten trying to get out of a teacup). Because it turns out these books were exactly what I needed to combat the baby blues that you always hear people talk about (and that are completely real, by the way. And in spite of how justified the hype is, I was overjoyed that I hadn’t already read them. Only a few days after coming home from the hospital, I had finished both MY LADY JANE and MY PLAIN JANE. I finally cracked open MY LADY JANE.įeeding a baby is an excellent way to catch up on reading, as any new parent can attest. So this year, right after safely delivering baby #4 (and taking a much needed nap), it was time. Because the Lady Janies are legit, and everyone whose opinion I trust most loves the books.

But, real talk? That’s a terrible defense. In my defense, it’s tough balancing momming and writing and volunteering. As an author of more than one classic retelling, I’m a little embarrassed to admit how long it took me to read MY LADY JANE and MY PLAIN JANE.

My lady jane by cynthia hand