Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West's most vital secrets?įour years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn't seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. The world is shocked by the family's sensational disappearance.

Synopsis: In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. After such a magical storytelling experience, we couldn’t wait to do it all over again with The Glass Ocean, out in September 2018.“Our Woman in Moscow” by Beatriz Williams That first draft became The Forgotten Room, which was an instant New York Times bestseller in 2016 and a beloved favorite of many of our readers…and the basis for what might have been The Best Book Tour Ever (TM). Each main character was narrated by one author, and we wove these stories together in alternating chapters (round-robin style) to create a seamless whole. Since all three of us write novels that take place over multiple time periods, we plotted out a story in three interwoven narratives–a mystery surrounding a New York City mansion during the 1890s, the 1920s, and the 1940s–from the perspectives of three generations of women. One late evening with a bottle of wine, Karen White, Lauren Willig and I had this terrific idea: we should write a book together, which would not only give us an excuse to meet more often, but would allow us to go on a book tour together (at our publisher’s expense, of course!). When I first entered this crazy world of publishing, I discovered many new friends among the other authors I met at conferences and book signings, and a few of them turned out to be kindred spirits. Why-and how-do you write books with Karen White and Lauren Willig?

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