A Book Talk with Patti Callahan Henry

Join us for a book talk with Patti Callahan Henry celebrating the paperback launch of The Story She Left Behind! The author will be in conversation with Charlie Lovett, author of The Enigma Affair.

Tickets are $19 (plus taxes & fees) and include access to the event, a paperback copy of the book, and access to the signing line following the talk.

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Inspired by a true literary mystery, New York Times bestselling author of the mesmerizing The Secret Book of Flora Lea returns with the sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both.
In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, vanishes off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her disappearance leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beloved mother.
By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother’s lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s disappearance, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London’s most deadly natural disasters—the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson’s family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind.

Patti Callahan Henry is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of several novels, including Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the recipient of the Christy Award, the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year Award, and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year. She is the cohost and cocreator of the popular weekly online live web show and podcast Friends and Fiction. She lives in Alabama and South Carolina with her family. Find out more at PattiCallahanHenry.com.

Charlie Lovett is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and playwright whose award-winning plays have been seen in over 5,000 productions worldwide. His five previous novels have included an Indie Next pick and a Barnes & Noble Recommends selection; have been praised in outlets including Parade, People, and Washington Post; and have been translated into several languages. He hosted the podcast Inside the Writer’s Studio and is a scholar of Lewis Carroll and collector of his works and related materials (including Carroll’s 1888 typewriter). Charlie and his wife, Janice, live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and in Kingham, Oxfordshire.

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Bookmarks, 634 West 4th Street, Winston-Salem, United States

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