Season 11, Episode 234 A Home for Friendless Women with guest Kelly Hill

This week we chat with Kelly Hill who published her debut novel, A Home for Friendless Women, this year in March. It is the story of three Victorian-era women who experience a home for “fallen” women in very different ways.

What makes this novel especially unique is that Kelly got the idea for it from her time interning at The Filson Historical Society while she was completing her dissertation at the University of Louisville. She came across historic documents about a home for pregnant women here in Louisville and fictionalized them to create a powerful story. While the story is about a tough time for women over a century ago.

Books Mentioned In this Episode:

1- A Home for Friendless Women by Kelly Hill

2- The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni

3- The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

4- A Five Star Read Recommended by fellow Book Lover Tracey Myers-Quesada @cubadianmom3 - Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch by Erin French

5- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

6- When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by Jon Ganz

7- Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben by Josh Trujillo and Levi Hastings

Media:

1- The Lost Kitchen (Hulu, Amazon, 2021- present)

2- The Wild Robot (2024)