Monday Give Away
For those of you who enjoy books like Lucinda Riley’s The Orchid House, Kate Morton’s The House at Riverton, and my That Summer, I have a copy of Christine Wells’s The Wife’s Tale. Here’s the official blurb: An unforgettable novel that transports the reader from modern day Australia to the windswept Isle of Wight and…
Read More"Curiosity Cabinet" Winner
The winner of a copy of Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet is…. Rachel! (Of Comment #2.) Congrats, Rachel! If you email me (willig@post.harvard.edu), I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. A new give away will be coming up next Monday!
Read MoreMonday Give Away
Happy Labor Day, all! Nothing says Labor Day like Coney Island, so today I’m giving away a copy of H.P. Wood’s Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet. Here’s the official blurb: A hypnotic debut in turn-of-the-century Coney Island, where an abandoned girl collides with a disgruntled ménage of circus freaks. Kitty Hayward and her mother are ready to…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Labor Day weekend! This week I belatedly discovered Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook, in which a high ranking official in a top top secret organization finds herself plunging back into her old life after being stripped of her memories by a traitor. It’s a little bit Rivers of London and a little bit James Bond…
Read More"Curious Charms" Winner!
The winner of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper is… …Susan Gorman! Congratulations!! If you email me at willig@post.harvard.edu, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Check back on Monday when another book will be up for grabs!
Read MoreMonday Give Away!
One of the perks of my profession is that I sometimes wind up with double copies of wonderful books. In the interest of sharing the joy (and freeing up room on my bookshelf), every Monday I’ll be giving away a new book. This week? I have a brand new hardcover copy of Phaedra Patrick’s The…
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Happy Friday, all! In between ripping up bits of my manuscript this week (oh, revisions), I indulged in Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before the War, in which World War I comes to the inhabits of a Thirkell-esque village, and Liane Moriarty’s Truly Madly Guilty, in which something goes very wrong at a barbecue and you…
Read MoreTHE FORGOTTEN ROOM Paperback– October!
Exciting news! The release of The Forgotten Room paperback, now with a snazzy new cover, has been moved up to October 25th! Apologies for all the crickets chirping here on the website this summer…. I’ve been deep in revision mode for Stand Alone #4 and research mode for Stand Alone #5. I’ll have more information…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
There’s something about summer and brand new books that just goes together. In between gnashing my teeth over revisions (revisions always entail tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth– or, at least, lots of wine and chocolate), I’ve been indulging in some new to me books. This week’s haul: — Laurie King’s The Bones of…
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I’ve finally gotten around to reading some new (and new-ish) releases that I’ve had on my pile for a while. At the top of the pile? Eleanor Brown’s The Light of Paris, a lovely book about a grandmother and a granddaughter, one in the 1920s, the other in the 1990s, trying to find their true…
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