It was just a few years ago that I wrote a review of Overlook Press's first publication by Penny Vincenzi, the British novelist who was a sensation in her home country but still virtually unknown in the States. Since then, Vincenzi's multi-generational family sagas have become deservedly successful in this country as well. Now Overlook has done it again, picking up the backlist of British author Rosie Thomas. While some of her books already have been published in the US, American readers will not be as familiar with her as those across the pond are. Thomas's writing is very different from Vincenzi's, but her