- Hester: A Novel: Albanese, Laurie Lico: 9781250278555: Amazon. com: Books
HESTER is an Audible Best Book of 2022, an IndieNext and Canadian and American Librarians October 2022 selection, a Gillian Flynn Best Books of Fall 2022, a Book of the Month club selection, and a finalist in the Goodreads Best Books of the Year Laurie’s novel STOLEN BEAUTY was praised by the Wall Street Journal as “a work of art itself ”
- Meaning, origin and history of the name Hester
Latin form of Esther Like Esther, it has been used in England since the Protestant Reformation Nathaniel Hawthorne used it for the heroine of his novel The Scarlet Letter (1850), Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman forced to wear a red letter A on her chest after giving birth to a child out of wedlock
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