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Zusatztext 41170209 Informationen zum Autor Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of the novels You Were Meant For Me , Two of a Kind , A Wedding in Great Neck , Breaking the Bank , In Dahlia’s Wake , and The Four Temperaments , as well as nineteen books for children. She is also the editor of two essay collections and is the Fiction Editor at Lilith magazine. Her award-winning short fiction, articles, and essays have been published in anthologies and in numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children. Klappentext A compelling novel about one woman's search for the truth from the author of You Were Meant For Me. After suffering a sudden! traumatic loss! historical novelist Susannah Gilmore decides to uproot her life-and the lives of her two children-and leave their beloved Brooklyn for the little town of Eastwood! New Hampshire. While the trio adjusts to their new surroundings! Susannah is captivated by an unexpected find in her late parents' home: an unsigned love note addressed to her mother! in handwriting that is most definitely not her father's. Reeling from the thought that she never really knew her mother! Susannah finds mysteries everywhere she looks: in her daughter's friendship with an older neighbor! in a charismatic local man to whom she's powerfully drawn! and in an eighteenth century crime she's researching for her next book. Compelled to dig into her mother's past! Susannah discovers even more secrets! ones that surpass any fiction she could ever put to paper... Leseprobe Written by today’s freshest new talents and selected by New American Library, NAL Accent novels touch on subjects close to a woman’s heart, from friendship to family to finding our place in the world. The Conversation Guides included in each book are intended to enrich the individual reading experience, as well as encourage us to explore these topics together—because books, and life, are meant for sharing. Visit us online at penguin.com. Praise Also by Yona Zeldis McDonough Title Page Copyright Dedication PROLOGUE ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN TWELVE THIRTEEN FOURTEEN FIFTEEN SIXTEEN SEVENTEEN EIGHTEEN NINETEEN TWENTY TWENTY-ONE TWENTY-TWO TWENTY-THREE TWENTY-FOUR TWENTY-FIVE TWENTY-SIX TWENTY-SEVEN TWENTY-EIGHT TWENTY-NINE THIRTY THIRTY-ONE THIRTY-TWO THIRTY-THREE THIRTY-FOUR THIRTY-FIVE THIRTY-SIX THIRTY-SEVEN THIRTY-EIGHT THIRTY-NINE FORTY FORTY-ONE EPILOGUE Acknowledgments Conversation Guide About the Author PROLOGUE It’s two p.m. on a freakishly warm afternoon in January. Susannah Gilmore reluctantly looks up from her laptop. Standing in the doorway of her home office is her husband, Charlie. “Have you seen what it’s doing outside?” he asks. She nods, attention drifting back to the screen. “It’s sixty-nine degrees.” “The January thaw, right?” She’s read about this someplace, though she can’t recall where. “Whatever. We should take advantage of it, though. Let’s go for a bike ride before the kids get home.” “I wish I could.” She turns to him. At six foot three, he’s lanky and lean. Ginger hair, great smile, and, under his shirt, a constellation of freckles dotting his shoulders and upper back. Forty-three, yet still so boyish. “But I’ve got a deadline.” “One afternoon is not going to make or break you. Not even an afternoon. An hour and a half, max. Carpe diem and all that.” She smiles at him. “I really can’...
