And After the Fire (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers Choice) - Hardcover

Belfer s prose is heartbreaking, as are her twin themes of love and betrayal, both romantic and familial. . . . She also has a gift for rejuvenating spirit of placeturn-of-the-20th-century Buffalo in City of Light and wartime New York here. --USA Today"

. . . Belfer is adept at writing historical fiction that sizzles. Sex, spies, murder, big money, family betrayals, doomed romance and exotic travel are smoothly braided into her main narrative about the wartime race to make large quantities of penicillin. --Washington Post Book World"

Lauren Belfer s panoramic new novel is a love story wrapped around a spy story with a pivotal medical breakthrough at its center. --O magazine"

A FIERCE RADIANCE shines with fascinating detail about a moment in American history we have mostly forgotten, when penicillin was new, miraculous, and in short supply. Belfer s powerful portrayal of how people are changed in pursuit of a miracle makes this book an especially compelling read. --Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank"

An ingenious first novel. . . . Alive with historical figures who mingle seamlessly with the fictional characters. . . . A huge, sprawling portrait of the United States at the turn of the last century. --New York Times Book Review, in praise of City of Light"

A remarkably suspenseful story, a literary thriller in the tradition of A.S. Byatt s Possession.--Kirkus Reviews"

Blending the gorgeousness of Bach and the horror of anti-Semitism over several centuries should make for unsettling contemplation, and readers of Belfer s . . . know that the author will be meticulous with both fact and fiction.--Library Journal"

Her most compelling [novel] yet. . . . Told with lyrical beauty . . . the novel is like the lost cantata itself, revealing our capacity for darkness, redeemed by the power of unconditional love. A dazzling, transformative novel. Highly recommended. --Historical Novel Society"