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Barcode37821002537310
LocationMarshall District
TitleThe story she left behind : a novel / Patti Callahan Henry.
AuthorHenry, Patti Callahan, author.
Call NoFIC HEN
CollectionAdult New Arrivals

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International Standard Book Number 9781668011874
International Standard Book Number 1668011875
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813
Personal Name Henry, Patti Callahan, author.
Title Statement The story she left behind : a novel / Patti Callahan Henry.
Edition Statement First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Imprint New York : Atria Books, 2025.
Physical Description 339 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington's magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears 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 departure 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 beautiful 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 vanishing, 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" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mothers and daughters Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Life change events Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Missing persons Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women authors Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Secrecy Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Families Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term London (England) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term South Carolina Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Cryptologic fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.

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