A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times
bestseller! “A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A
story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes
from discovering truth.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author
of The Shoemaker's Wife In New York Times bestselling author Fiona
Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the
iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of
strong-willed women to pick up the pieces. It's 1913, and on the
surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life—her husband
is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their
family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are
blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants
more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia
Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take
her all over the city, she is drawn to Greenwich Village's new
bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club—a radical,
all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their
opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura
finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. And
when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the
home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting
priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process.
Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy
of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after
she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public
Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare
manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin
disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to
save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-averse Sadie
teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit.
However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation
leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family
heritage—truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the
library's history.
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A Novel
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781524744625
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Penguin US
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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