The author, a former Atlantan who now lives in Colorado, is especially adept at conveying the incomparable, sometimes mystifying love-hate relationship possible between sisters. Ultimately, the ending is a little too tidy, but the characters-whether alive or dead-are compelling and believable. Mae has relocated to be closer to her younger sister, March, who is rehabilitating after a devastating fall from a horse. ( From the author's website.As the novel begins, young do-gooder Mae Wallace has left her job in Atlanta at World Matters, a nonprofit agency loosely modeled after CARE (where the author was a consultant for four years), and moved to an island off the South Carolina coast, right next door to grieving widower Hale Brock. Her first book, Losing the Moon, was published in 2004. She began taking writing classes at Emory University, attending weekend writers’ conferences, and educating herself about the publishing industry, rising at 4:30 AM to write. Henry wrote early in the mornings, before her children woke for the day, but it wasn’t until Meagan, then six, told her mother that she wanted “to be a writer of books” when she grew up, that Henry realized that writing was her own dream as well.

She left nursing to raise her first child, Meagan, and not long after having her third child, Rusk, she began writing down the stories that had always been in her head. With the idea that being a novelist was “unrealistic,” she set her sights on becoming a pediatric nurse, graduating from Auburn University with a degree in nursing, and from Georgia State with a Master’s degree in Child Health. Patti Callahan Henry grew up in Philadelphia, the daughter of an Irish minister, and moved south with her family when she was 12 years old. A full time writer, wife, and mother of three-Henry lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama. She is a frequent speaker at fundraisers, library events and book festivals.

Two of her novels were Okra Picks and Coming up For Air was selected for the August 2011 Indie Next List. Henry has appeared in numerous magazines including Good Housekeeping, skirt!, South, and Southern Living. Her work is published in five languages and in audiobook by Brilliance Audio. Hailed as a fresh new voice in southern fiction, Henry has been shortlisted for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, and nominated four different times for the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Novel of the Year. New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry has published nine novels: Losing the Moon, Where the River Runs, When Light Breaks, Between the Tides, The Art of Keeping Secrets, Driftwood Summer, The Perfect Love Song, Coming up for Air, and And Then I Found You-her most recent. Currently-lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama.Education-R.N., Auburn University M.C.H., Georgia State.

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