About Leaving Everything Most Loved • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 8, 2014) London, 1933. Two months after Usha Pramal’s body is discovered in the waters of a city canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs for help. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but evidence indicates […]
Hazel Gaynor, author of The Girl Who Came Home, on tour April 2014
About The Girl Who Came Home • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 1, 2014) A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . . Ireland, 1912 . . . Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in […]
Janie Chang, author of Three Souls, on tour February/March 2014
About Three Souls • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 25, 2014) An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love We have three souls, or so I’d been told. But only in death could I confirm this…. So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the […]
Kathleen Tessaro, author of The Perfume Collector, on tour February 2014
About The Perfume Collector • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 4, 2014) London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate young woman. Despite her sheltered upbringing in Oxford, her recent marriage has thrust her into the heart of London’s most refined and ambitious social circles. However, playing the role of the sophisticated socialite her husband would like […]
Jan Shapin, author of A Snug Life Somewhere, on tour February 2014
About A Snug Life Somewhere • Paperback: 294 pages • Publisher: Cambridge Books (April, 2014) A Snug Life Somewhere is about Penny Joe Copper, daughter of a roustabout shingle weaver, who is caught up in a 1916 union tragedy known as the Everett Massacre. Her brother Horace is killed, as is the cousin of a radical organizer, Gabe. When […]
Michele Zackheim, author of Last Train to Paris, on tour January 2014
About Last Train to Paris • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Europa Editions (January 7, 2014) Inspired by the story of a distant cousin who was murdered in Paris in 1937, award-winning author Michele Zackheim’s Last Train to Paris is a gripping epic about a half-Jewish female reporter from Nevada who writes for the Paris Courier in the 1930’s. […]
Jane Sanderson, author of Netherwood & Ravenscliffe, on tour January 2014
About Netherwood • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 31, 2013) Two remarkably different worlds—one of wealth and privilege, the other of poverty and desperation—are about to collide in one shattering moment in this mesmerizing tale of high drama, forbidden love, and families fighting to hold on to what they have Upstairs: Lord Netherwood, a […]
April Smith, author of A Star for Mrs. Blake, on tour January/February 2014
About A Star for Mrs. Blake Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally […]
Jennifer Robson, author of Somewhere in France, on tour January 2014
About Somewhere in France • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 31, 2013) In the dark and dangerous days of World War I, a daring young woman will risk her life to find her destiny Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants to travel the world, pursue a career, and marry for love. But in 1914, the stifling restrictions […]
Nancy Horan, author of Under the Wide and Starry Sky, on tour February 2014
About Under the Wide and Starry Sky Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 21, 2014) From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift […]