Have you heard the good news? My Friends & Fiction sister Kristy Woodson Harvey’s A HAPPIER LIFE is out today! Mary Kay Andrews called it “that wistful, sparkling summer song whose notes will long linger in reader’s memories.” Such a lovely description of this bookcation to Kristy’s own town of Beaufort, NC, where a historic home holds a long-buried family secret.
Inspired by the unusual deaths of Kristy’s great aunt and uncle in the 1970s (deaths that, in her mind, were never quite “solved”) and an abandoned house that she was one of the first people to enter after it had been closed up for fifty years, this novel is the culmination of two events that have occupied her imagination for decades.
A HAPPIER LIFE has topped “must-read” lists of summer on Katie Couric, Cosmopolitan, Parade, Reader’s Digest, and so many more, and Annabel Monaghan summed it up as: “a family mystery wrapped in a love story (that) is also a gracious nod to tradition and the people who came before us,” proclaiming it: “the novel to read this year!”
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Emily Giffin declared, “This novel needs to be in your beach bag,” and I couldn’t agree more! Grab your copy from your local indie, visit Kristy on tour, or purchase from the Friends & Fiction Bookshop.org page or wherever books are sold!