About The Uninvited Guests • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 1, 2012) With some apprehension, the Torrington family is about to celebrate the twentieth birthday of Emerald, the second of three children. Their housekeeper, Florence, plans an elaborate dinner for the family and a few close friends. Charlotte and her children—the romantically handsome […]
Archives for March 15, 2012
Liza Palmer, author of More Like Her, on tour April/May 2012
About More Like Her • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 17, 2012) What really goes on behind those perfect white picket fences? In Frances’s mind, beautiful, successful, ecstatically married Emma Dunham is the height of female perfection. Frances, recently dumped with spectacular drama by her boyfriend, aspires to be just like Emma. So […]
Priscilla Gilman, author of The Anti-Romantic Child, on tour April/May 2012
About The Anti-Romantic Child • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 24, 2012) Priscilla Gilman, a teacher of romantic poetry who embraced Wordsworth’s vision of childhood’s spontaneous wonder, eagerly anticipated the birth of her first child, certain that he would come “trailing clouds of glory.” But as Benjamin grew, his remarkable precocity was […]
Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Lost in Shangri-La, on tour April/May 2012
About Lost in Shangri-La • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 24, 2012) Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into a land that time […]
Catherine McKenzie, author of Arranged, on tour May 2012
About Arranged • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (May 15, 2012) Anne Blythe has a great life: a good job, close friends, and a potential book deal for her first novel. When it comes to finding someone to share her life with, however, she just can’t seem to get it right. When […]
Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, on tour June and July 2012
About The Age of Miracles Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Random House “It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It’s possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.” On a […]