The secret book of Flora Lea : a novel
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353 pages ; 24 cm.
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In the swinging London of 1960, Hazel Linden is working in a store selling rare books, about to start a new job at Sotheby's auction house and contentedly cohabiting with a hunky professor with "wind-whipped black hair" and family money. Then, on her last day working at the store, she opens a mysterious package that brings her back to her adolescence. Inside is the manuscript of a children's novel titled Whisperwood and the River of Stars, which echoes much more closely than coincidence would permit the enchanted land she invented years earlier and the stories she told about it as a 14-year-old to her 5-year-old sister, Flora, when the two of them were evacuated from London during the Blitz. During the time the two of them were living with motherly Bridie Aberdeen and her artistic son, Harry, outside of Oxford, Flora disappeared one day, leaving her beloved teddy bear by the River Thames and leaving the police to conclude that she had drowned, though her body was never recovered. Hazel, who has always blamed herself for Flora's disappearance because she was off canoodling with Harry when it happened, and who has never given up hope of finding her again, is inspired to redouble her efforts, which lead her both to the book's author on Cape Cod and into her past, where she reconnects with Bridie and, more life-changingly, with Harry as well as with a journalist who has been researching the stories of lost evacuees.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Henry, P. C. (2023). The secret book of Flora Lea: a novel (First Atria Books hardcover edition.). Atria Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Henry, Patti Callahan. 2023. The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel. Atria Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Henry, Patti Callahan. The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel Atria Books, 2023.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Henry, Patti Callahan. The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel First Atria Books hardcover edition., Atria Books, 2023.

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