4įrom the beginning, the Solarium was the private domain of the first family. Later he would tell another president, Bill Clinton, that the Solarium was his favorite room in the White House. 3 Ironically, health would be an issue seventy years later when President Ronald Reagan found the Solarium a therapeutic place in which to recover from an assassin’s bullet. People in the 1920s believed that sunlight and fresh air were vital to good mental and physical health, so sunrooms had become a popular feature in private homes. She called it her “Sky Parlor”-an old Virginia term for a sunny attic room.
“This is a thinking novel wrapped around a powerful story with characters you can love facing untold dangers and risking everything on their holy mission.Originally a square room atop the South Portico, the Solarium was the brainchild of First Lady Grace Coolidge. The story has a fairy tale quality, but quickly disabuses the reader of any notion the happy ever after will be easily won.” “Recommended for fans of fairy tales and mythology and anyone who enjoys an epic quest with all the inherent twists and turns.” “The Garden At The Roof Of The World’ is delightfully easy to read. The author WBJ Williams lives in Boston and enjoys history and anthropology, and in THE GARDEN AT THE ROOF OF THE WORLD has created a mystic and stirring blend of thirteenth- century cultures.” My interest was held throughout the book, and I can’t tell you how many times I cried during the reading – usually at the beauty of the emotions it engendered" “Fantasy fans will enjoy this mix of European and Sanskrit folk tales with rich invention and travel lore. "a deeply philosophical tome (the print version is 370 pages) it never lags, never falters. “Williams’s debut, a finalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, shows his willingness to take on difficult topics of faith, culture clashes, and gender issues the effort is admirable”
Publisher’s Weekly, 2009, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award As a whole, this is a solid mystical adventure that will interest readers from start to finish with its likable protagonists and constant twists and turns.” “A sprawling, advantageous effort similar to, and obviously inspired by, Tolkien’s “Lord of Rings” series as well as the “Narnia” books” “The author carefully mixes historical fact with well-crafted mythology.
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