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Also by Lisa Wingate:

Shelterwood, June 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Before We Were Yours, December 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Thousand Voices, November 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Book of Lost Friends, April 2020
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Never Say Never, May 2019
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Word Gets Around, February 2019
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Talk of the Town, September 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Before We Were Yours, June 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Sea Keeper's Daughters, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Story Keeper, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Wildwood Creek, February 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Prayer Box, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Summer Kitchen, July 2009
Trade Size
A Month of Summer, July 2008
Trade Size

Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate

Ballantine Books
December 2022
On Sale: November 29, 2022
Featuring: Rill Foss
480 pages
ISBN: 0593599004
EAN: 9780593599006
Kindle: B01M14UN1J
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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Other Editions
Hardcover (June 2017)

Contemporary

Look for Lisa Wingate’s powerful new historical novel, The Book of Lost Friends, available now!

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.

Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption.

Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.

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