Though set in revolutionary Cuba rather than Regency England, The Advent House resonates with the same tensions that animate my most beloved novels — personal loyalty, family secrets, and the machinery of power that grinds ordinary lives to dust.
Gabriela and Tomas move toward one another with the inevitable pull of two people who have no business being together but cannot help themselves. Their story has the quality of a love conducted in whispers, each revelation deepening their entanglement. Tomas’s discovery of his true father, and the trial that threatens to expose everything, carries the weight of a Dickensian revelation.
The Advent house itself is a beautiful invention — a container for secrets, for faith, for the question of what survives when everything else is stripped away. Mr. Jorgenson writes with care and intelligence.
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