character-driven historical fiction

“[I]t is the internal consequences of incremental bargaining with evil—the feelings roiling beneath the façade of a person—that this novel explores so brilliantly…The novel’s greatest triumph is its exploration of this very question: is compromise possible when a moral imperative is at stake?” Publishers Weekly manuscript review of FAÇADE

historical fiction

Inspired by arresting moments in history—like the storming of an art school by state police officers in pre-WWII Berlin, like the preternatural darkening of the mid-day sky in Revolution-era New England—Christine Beth Reish’s fiction explores themes of resilience, identity, and the search for truth as her characters (both fictional and historical) struggle to understand themselves and the times in which they live.

Christine Beth Reish lives and writes in beautiful Bucks County, Pennsylvania. An early version of her first manuscript, FAÇADE, was a top semifinalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest. An excerpt of the story was subsequently published in the literary journal Conclave: A Journal of Character. Her second novel, DARK DAY, is nearing completion.

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