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The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry

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Also by Patti Callahan Henry:

The Story She Left Behind, March 2025
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The Secret Book of Flora Lea, April 2024
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The Secret Book of Flora Lea, May 2023
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Coming Up for Air, May 2022
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Reunion Beach, May 2021
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The Favorite Daughter, June 2019
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The Bookshop at Water's End, July 2017
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The Idea of Love, July 2015
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The Stories We Tell, May 2015
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And Then I Found You, April 2013
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Coming Up For Air, August 2011
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The Perfect Love Song, October 2010
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Driftwood Summer, June 2009
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The Art Of Keeping Secrets, June 2008
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Between The Tides, June 2007
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When Light Breaks, May 2006
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Where the River Runs, May 2005
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Losing The Moon, May 2004
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Losing the Moon, May 2004
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The Story She Left Behind
Patti Callahan Henry

A Novel

Atria
March 2025
On Sale: March 18, 2025
Featuring: Clara Harrington; Wynnie; Charlie Jameson
352 pages
ISBN: 1668011875
EAN: 9781668011874
Kindle: B0CXHLPBCT
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Women's Fiction Historical

Inspired by a true literary mystery, New York Times bestselling author of the mesmerizing The Secret Book of Flora Lea returns with the sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both.

In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother.

By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother’s lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London’s most deadly natural disasters—the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson’s family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind.

Told in Patti Callahan Henry’s lyrical, enchanting prose, The Story She Left Behind is a captivating novel of mystery and family legacy that captures the profound longing for a mother and the evergreen allure of secrets.

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