Editorial Content for Right After the Weather
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The author of the “graceful and compassionate” (People) New York Times bestseller CARRY THE ONE presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test and, in its aftermath, find themselves in a newly uncertain world.
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The author of the “graceful and compassionate” (People) New York Times bestseller CARRY THE ONE presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test and, in its aftermath, find themselves in a newly uncertain world.
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The author of the “graceful and compassionate” (People) New York Times bestseller CARRY THE ONE presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test and, in its aftermath, find themselves in a newly uncertain world.
It’s the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early 40s, lives and works in Chicago’s theater community. She has stayed too long at the fair, and knows it’s time to get past her prolonged adolescence and stop taking handouts from her parents. She has a firm plan to get solvent and settled in a serious relationship. She has tentatively started something new, even as she’s haunted by an old, going-nowhere affair. Her ex-husband, recently booted from his most recent marriage, is currently camped out in Cate’s spare bedroom, in thrall to online conspiracy theories, and she’s not sure how to help him. Her best friend Neale, a yoga instructor, lives nearby with her son and is Cate’s model for what serious adulthood looks like.
Only a few blocks away, but in a parallel universe, we find Nathan and Irene --- casual sociopaths, drug addicts and small-time criminals. Their world and Cate’s intersect the day she comes into Neale’s kitchen to find these strangers assaulting her friend. Forced to take fast, spontaneous action, Cate does something she’s never even considered. She now also knows the violence she is capable of, as does everyone else in her life, and overnight, their world has changed.
Anshaw’s flawed, sympathetic and uncannily familiar characters grapple with their altered relationships and identities against the backdrop of the new Trump presidency and a country waking to a different understanding of itself. Eloquent, moving and beautifully observed, RIGHT AFTER THE WEATHER is the work of a master of exquisite prose and a wry and compassionate student of the human condition writing at the height of her considerable powers.
Editorial Content for A Single Thread
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A SINGLE THREAD by internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier is an immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War.
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A SINGLE THREAD by internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier is an immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War.
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A SINGLE THREAD by internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier is an immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War.
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals. There, Violet is drawn into a society of broderers --- women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral, carrying on a centuries-long tradition of bringing comfort to worshippers.
Violet finds support and community in the group, fulfillment in the work they create, and even a growing friendship with the vivacious Gilda. But when forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, Violet must fight to put down roots in a place where women aren't expected to grow. Told in Chevalier's glorious prose, A SINGLE THREAD is a timeless story of friendship, love and a woman crafting her own life.
Editorial Content for The Sisters of Summit Avenue
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From Lynn Cullen, the bestselling author of MRS. POE and TWAIN'S END, comes a powerful novel set in the Midwest during the Great Depression, about two sisters bound together by love, duty and pain.
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From Lynn Cullen, the bestselling author of MRS. POE and TWAIN'S END, comes a powerful novel set in the Midwest during the Great Depression, about two sisters bound together by love, duty and pain.
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Ruth has been single-handedly raising four young daughters and running her family’s Indiana farm for eight long years, ever since her husband, John, fell into a comatose state, infected by the infamous “sleeping sickness” devastating families across the country. If only she could trade places with her older sister, June, who is the envy of everyone she meets: blonde and beautiful, married to a wealthy doctor, living in a mansion in St. Paul. And June has a coveted job, too, as one of “the Bettys,” the perky recipe developers who populate General Mills’ famous Betty Crocker test kitchens. But these gilded trappings hide sorrows: she has borne no children. And the man she used to love more than anything belongs to Ruth.
When the two sisters reluctantly reunite after a long estrangement, June’s bitterness about her sister’s betrayal sets into motion a confrontation that’s been years in the making. And their mother, Dorothy, who’s brought the two of them together, has her own dark secrets, which might blow up the fragile peace she hopes to restore between her daughters.
An emotional journey of redemption, inner strength and the ties that bind families together, for better or worse, THE SISTERS OF SUMMIT AVENUE is a heartfelt love letter to mothers, daughters and sisters everywhere.
Editorial Content for A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
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A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN is the riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.
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A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN is the riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.
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A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN is the riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.
Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, in A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules --- and how to break them.