About Cascade • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Viking Adult (August 16, 2012) 1935: In a small town fighting for its survival, a conflicted new wife and promising artist finds herself caught in the eternal tug between duty and desire Desdemona Hart Spaulding was an up-and-coming Boston artist when she married in haste and settled in the small, once-fashionable theater […]
Jill Dawson, author of Lucky Bunny, on tour November 2012
About Lucky Bunny Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 30, 2012) Daring, clever, and alluring, Queenie Dove has spent a lifetime developing the skills of an accomplished thief. Born into a criminal family in London’s East End during the Great Depression, and trained by a group of women shoplifters during the Blitz, Queenie soon graduates from […]
Clare Clark, author of Beautiful Lies, on tour September/October 2012
About Beautiful Lies • Hardcover: 512 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September 18, 2012) “A stirring and seductive novel.”—Economist London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, on tour August/September 2012
About The Shoemaker’s Wife • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 21, 2012) The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New York’s Little […]
Tina Connolly, author of Ironskin, on tour October 2012
About Ironskin Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (October 2, 2012) After establishing herself with her short fiction, Tina Connolly becomes a novelist to watch with her debut IRONSKIN (Tor Hardcover; $24.99; On-sale October 2, 2012)—a loose re-imagining of Jane Eyre set in the aftermath of a Great War between the humans and fey. […]
Mingmei Yip, author of Skeleton Women, on tour September 2012
About Skeleton Women Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Kensington (May 29, 2012) Skeleton Women is a Chinese phrase for femmes fatales. This story is about three of them — Camilla, a nightclub singer who has been forced to become a spy, Shadow a magician who jumps naked off a tall building, and a gender-ambiguous gossip columnist. All must scheme […]
Amanda Coplin, author of the Orchardist, on tour August/September 2012
About The Orchardist • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 21, 2012) At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and […]
Andrew Goldstein, author of The Bookie’s Son, on tour September 2012
About The Bookie’s Son Paperback: 248 pages Publisher: (sixoneseven) books (May 1, 2012) In 1960, as a way to pay off some of his debt, the bookie, Harry Davis, starts collecting loan payments for the Bronx gangster, Nathan Glucksman. Making his rounds, Harry visits a sweet tailor named Morris, who is a survivor of the Holocaust. Whether […]
Patricia Harman, author of The Midwife of Hope River, on tour August/September 2012
About The Midwife of Hope River • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 28, 2012) Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most […]
Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World, on tour August/September 2012
About The Mirrored World • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 28, 2012) The bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an eccentric dreamer who cares little for social conventions, falls […]