Elena Bowes

New York-London travel & design writer of a certain vintage looking for meaning and wholeness in life

This Tender Land – Q&A with William Kent Krueger

January 26th, 2021
Lovings: Books, Writers & Film

I caught up with best selling author William Kent Krueger whose latest novel, This Tender Land, is an epic story that will draw you in and take you away to a different time and place in America’s checkered past – just what the doctor ordered for these lockdown days. Inspired by The Tales of Huckleberry Finn and...

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