Fran Hawthorne

Fran Hawthorne has been writing novels since she was four years old, though she wassidetracked for a few decades by journalism. During that award-winning career, she wrote eightnonfiction books, mainly about consumer activism, the drug industry, and the financial world,and was also an editor or regular contributor for The New York Times, Institutional Investor, andmany other publications. But she never abandoned her true love: Her first two novels, The Heirsand I Meant to Tell You, were published in 2018 and 2022 and together won or were named afinalist for nine awards. HER DAUGHTER, her third novel -- newly published by Black RoseWriting -- is the story of a family where the father deliberately gaslights the daughter to alienateher from the mother.