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Susanna Kearsley

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New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, interweaving romance and historical intrigue with modern adventure.

Her books, published in translation in more than 20 countries, have won the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards, a RITA Award, and National Readers’ Choice Awards, and have finaled for the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year and the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.

She lives near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

(Aka Emma Cole, a pseudonym she used for one novel, Every Secret Thing, a thriller which at the time was intended to be the first of a trilogy featuring he ...more

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Bellewether Tour Dates for USA

Hi everybody!

Just a reminder of where I'll be stopping next week on my tour to celebrate the American publication of BELLEWETHER...

Sunday, August 5 @ 2pm:
Central Rappahannock Regional Library
1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Monday, August 6 @ 6:30pm:
High Point Museum
1859 East Lexington Ave., High Point, NC 27262

Tuesday, August 7 @ 6pm:
Malaprop's Books/Cafe
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Average rating: 4.02 · 266,176 ratings · 29,203 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Winter Sea (Slains, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 69,163 ratings — published 2008 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rose Garden 4.03 avg rating — 33,465 ratings — published 2011 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Firebird (Slains, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 30,263 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mariana 4.08 avg rating — 26,127 ratings — published 1994 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadowy Horses 3.97 avg rating — 22,389 ratings — published 1997 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Desperate Fortune (Mary & Hugh, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 18,493 ratings — published 2015 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bellewether 3.97 avg rating — 14,384 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Splendour Falls 3.75 avg rating — 11,168 ratings — published 1995 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Named of the Dragon 3.83 avg rating — 9,537 ratings — published 1998 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Season of Storms 3.72 avg rating — 9,090 ratings — published 2001 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Mariana

tags: change, life, past

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“But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

tags: life-lessons

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“Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

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It is time to vote for the December 2020 Member's Choice Book Selection.

The poll will remain open until November 10th...

The Pull of the Stars

by Emma Donoghue

16 votes, 23.5%

In Five Years

by Rebecca Serle

12 votes, 17.6%

The Winter Sea

by Susanna Kearsley

8 votes, 11.8%

Long Bright River

by Liz Moore

8 votes, 11.8%

The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

by Ursula Hegi

7 votes, 10.3%

The Girl with the Louding Voice

by Abi Daré

5 votes, 7.4%

Three Things About Elsie

by Joanna Cannon

4 votes, 5.9%

They Both Die at the End

by Adam Silvera

4 votes, 5.9%

Nothing More Dangerous

by Allen Eskens

3 votes, 4.4%

Uprooted

by Naomi Novik

1 vote, 1.5%

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