Bonjour, "L’Autre Héritière"!
The Other Daughter makes her French debut today! Bonjour, L’Autre Héritière! If you happen to be abroad, and catch a glimpse of L’Autre Héritière in the wild, snap a picture and send it my way. The first two Pink books and The Ashford Affair were discovered boozing it up in Burgundy this summer. I can’t…
Read MoreHappy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, all! Wishing everyone a spooky, safe, treat-filled evening….
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This week, my amazing college roommate sent a care package to me. There was Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible for my daughter (who gave it the bedtime reading two thumbs up) and Elsie Lee’s Wingarden for me. One of the things I love about Lee’s books is what perfect time capsules they are: little snapshots…
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I should listen to my best friend more often. Back in the spring, she recommended Elly Griffiths’s Ruth Galloway mysteries, about an academic in Norfolk who stumbles upon crime– or has crime brought to her, in the form of bones to be dated. This time it was Judith Flanders’s Sam Clair series, about an editor…
Read MoreENGLISH WIFE Goodreads Contest– Ending Today!
Here’s what early readers on Goodreads have been saying about The English Wife…. “This book had so much to recommend itself. Romance, murder, family secrets…..everything that make it the perfect fall read. I found myself reading late into the night and not anticipating all the little twists and turns in the story. I was so…
Read MoreL'Autre Héritière– THE OTHER DAUGHTER goes to France!
This fall, The Other Daughter is going to France! Which is pretty funny, because, at the beginning of the book, the heroine (aka the other daughter) leaves France to return to England. Perhaps she was missing it? In any event, I am delighted to announce that The Other Daughter will be transforming her look and…
Read MoreENGLISH WIFE Give Away!
St. Martin’s Press is giving away fifty advance copies of The English Wife on Goodreads! For a chance to win, just click through to the Goodreads contest page between now and October 20th. Here’s the official blurb: From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full…
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What with the recent heat wave, it’s hard to believe it’s almost the middle of October already! To get myself into the right mood, I started my annual Halloween reading with Simone St. James’s Lost Among the Living, a ghost story set in the aftermath of the first World War. If you haven’t read St.…
Read MoreSave the Date for the ENGLISH WIFE Book Tour!
Have author will travel! It’s time to mark your calendars for the English Wife January book tour. I’ll be doing events in New York, Georgia, Texas, and Arizona, joined by some of my favorite writer friends. New York: come join me for the English Wife launch party at The Corner Bookstore at 6:00 on Tuesday,…
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Mostly, I’ve been reading research books about 19th century Barbados this week, which, while absolutely fascinating, don’t really qualify as light reading. (But if you want to know about liminal groups in late 18th century plantation culture, I’m your gal!) For fun, though, I finally picked up Maureen Sherry’s Opening Belle, an incisive satire about…
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