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Before She Was a Finley: A Novel
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9781632261441
Publisher: All Night Books
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A young journalist uncovers the dark, long-buried truth behind why a talented singer abandoned her family decades ago in this engrossing novel.
In Carol Hoenig's previous novel, Without Grace, it is believed that Grace Finley walked out on her husband and two young children to fulfill a selfish dream of becoming a famous singer, leaving behind rumors and questions among her family and townsfolk in the mountains of Upstate New York.
Now in Before She Was a Finley, it is years later when Adele, a reluctant young journalism student is assigned to get a story from a local nursing home where she comes across elderly Grace Finley. Over time, Grace slowly takes Adele back to the 1930s and subsequent years that follow as she provides bits and pieces that eventually reveal the dark truth as to why she walked out on her family carrying only a guitar and suitcase. Adele knows that the class assignment was simply to write about a local person, and even though journalists aren't supposed to be a part of the story, she cannot shake what she discovered and wants to do more to set the record straight. But is there anyone still alive who would care?
In reviewing Without Grace, North Country Public Radio said, We need more North Country novels like Without Grace, novels with a keen sense of place. Before She was a Finley answers that call.
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