About The Chaperone • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (June 5, 2012) A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, […]
Heather Barbieri, author of The Cottage at Glass Beach, on tour May 2012
About The Cottage at Glass Beach • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 15, 2012) Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts state history, forty-year-old Nora Keane is a picture perfect political wife and doting mother. But her carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she – along with the rest of the […]
Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner, on tour May/June 2012
About Into the Darkest Corner • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 5, 2012) Catherine Bailey has been enjoying the single life long enough to know a catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic and spontaneous, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends clearly agree, as each in turn falls […]
Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests, on tour May 2012
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 […]
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 […]
Loung Ung, author of Lulu in the Sky, on tour April/May 2012
To celebrate this release, the first two memoirs in Loung Ung’s trilogy, the bestseller First They Killed My Father and the continuing story in Lucky Child, will also be on tour. About Lulu in the Sky • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 17, 2012) Concluding the trilogy that started with her bestselling […]
Elizabeth Percer, author of An Uncommon Education, on tour May 2012
About An Uncommon Education • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 1, 2012) A young woman tries to save three people she loves in this elegant and remarkably insightful coming-of-age debut. Afraid of losing her parents at a young age—her father with his weak heart, her deeply depressed mother—Naomi Feinstein prepared single-mindedly for a […]