Mary Doria Russell delivers again

When I bought my Kindle, I chose a new book by one of my favorite authors as the first read. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell did not disappoint, although I did not love it nearly as much as I loved The Sparrow, on of my all-time favorite books. Dreamers, like her previous book A Thread of Grace, falls into the genre of historical fiction (a favorite of mine), and Russell delivers with a compelling story set in an exotic setting (Cairo), during a historically important time (the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference), and full of wonderfully complex fictional and non-fictional (e.g., Winston Churchill, Lawrence of Arabia) characters. The plot is somewhat far-fetched, but the story and Russell’s beautiful writing make up for this weakness.