THAT SUMMER: $2.99 this summer!

It seems to be the summer of sale summer books!  Both of my books with “summer” in the title– That Summer and The Summer Country— are currently on sale on Kindle and Nook! For $2.99, you can travel to the suburbs of London in 2009 with a young American woman who discovers she’s inherited a…

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It’s a SUMMER COUNTRY summer sale!

Travel to 19th century Barbados for just $1.99 with the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and 2022 Barnes & Noble Hot Summer Read, The Summer Country! Right now, you can snap up a sale e-copy for Kindle or Nook for just $1.99– or an audiobook for the reduced price of $4.99. This is a book…

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Join Me in Barbados (Virtually!) with Wilsons in Wanderland!

Come join me tomorrow night at the Wilsons in Wanderland November book club meeting to discuss all things Summer Country! You can find scrumptious recipes for rum cake and cocktails and other fun things over on the Wilsons in Wanderland website.  Check out their website, and sign up for their newsletter or follow them on…

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Book Club Tonight!

Tragedy tomorrow, book club tonight?  (Now you can have that song stuck in your head, too!) Singing aside– and, really, I do promise not to sing!– I hope you can join me tonight at Shakespeare & Co’s virtual book club as we discuss all things Summer Country! This is my very last Summer Country event…

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SUMMER COUNTRY Virtual Book Club

I am beyond delighted that The Summer Country is Shakespeare & Co‘s August book club pick!  (I feel like the cool kid asked me to prom.) Come join me next Monday, August 10th, 6:30pm EST, to discuss all things Summer Country!  There’s still time to grab your copy and join the discussion.  Just email  events@shakeandco.com…

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THE SUMMER COUNTRY– now in paperback!

It’s hard to believe it’s June already, isn’t it?  But here we are, and here The Summer Country is, now in paperback! The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet—a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854.  Emily Dawson has…

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The 2020 Pinkorama Round-Up

Calling all 2020 Pinkorama participants to take a bow!  (Or curtsy.) After six days of superlative sugary creations, it’s time for the 2020 Pinkorama Round Up!  This year, we’ve got nativity plays gone wrong, a pirate as parson, flying attack stoats, an unusually tongue-tied poet, a Victorian parlor in Barbados, and a botched elopement in the…

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Pinkorama #5: The Summer Peeptry

For our fifth Pinkorama, Kayse brings us to Victorian Barbados with The Summer Peeptry! Kayse writes: “My Pinkorama depicts the opening scene of The Summer Country, when Emily, Adam, and Laura arrive at the Turners’ home in Bridgetown, Barbados.  I have Emily attempting to smooth things over with Nathaniel, after Adam put his foot in his mouth…

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Best Historical Fiction of 2019: THE SUMMER COUNTRY!

I’m so thrilled to announce that The Summer Country is a semi-finalist in the Best Historical Fiction category of this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards! Thank you.  Thank you so much to all of you who nominated The Summer Country and put it up there with all the historical fiction heavy hitters.  I couldn’t be more…

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Back on the Road!

I’m so thrilled to be teaming up with some of my favorite authors as the summer progresses!  You can find me: — at R.J. Julia in Madison, CT, on Tuesday, July 23rd, with Beatriz Williams; — at Shakespeare & Co (UES) in New York on Thursday, July 25th, with Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb; —…

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