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  • The Music of Eighty
    Kitty Burns Florey
    Kitty Burns Florey is the author of 15 novels and two works of nonfiction. Despite 'late-onset writer’s block,' she was inspired to write one more book when she began learning to play the viola da gamba, a string instrument that dates back to the 15th century.Part memoir, part how-to guide, part meditation on aging and time, THE MUSIC OF EIGHTY: LEARNING IN OLD AGE is a charmin...
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  • Amity Street
    Kitty Burns Florey
    Amity Street is the sequel to Kitty Burns Florey’s 2012 novel The Writing Master, which took place in New Haven in 1856. Amity Street moves ahead 35 years: it is now 1892. Anna Felice, a wealthy former opera star, travels from Rome, Italy, to America—to Manhattan, to New Haven, finally to Amherst, Massachusetts—in search of the truth about her birth. In Amherst, Anna encounte...
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  • The Quest for Inez
    Kitty Burns Florey
    A HIGHLY UNUSUAL APPROACH TO A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY In April 1910, a young woman named Inez Willick gave birth to a baby girl, put her up for adoption, and disappeared. When Inez's granddaughter began the search for her mother's mother, she didn't have much more than a name. But, as happens so often in genealogical research, she stumbled into an overwhelming bounty of informati...
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  • The Writing Master
    Kitty Burns Florey
    The Writing Master, a work of historical fiction set in 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, is about Charles Cooper, a penman-teacher of handwriting-who is attempting to come to terms with his tragic past, and Lily Prescott, an unconventional woman with her own troubled story. When a brutal murder takes place just outside the city, Charles becomes involved in its solution. ...
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  • The Sleep Specialist
    Kitty Burns Florey
    Robert Sinclair and his wife, May, move to New York City’s Gramercy Park area at the height of the Great Depression. Robert is a playwright, May an aspiring actress. As Robert attempts to begin his career and to keep the love of his glamorous wife, he also struggles to overcome the insomnia that plagues him--though, paradoxically, it’s on his solo night walks around the city th...
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  • Five Questions
    Kitty Burns Florey
    Wynn Tynan, a young woman growing up in rural Maine, has been raised by her accomplished parents to be an artist. When Wynn?s idyllic life takes a brief wrong turn--she becomes pregnant as a teenager--her loving but dominating mother is determined that her goals remain intact, and with reluctance, Wynn gives the baby up for adoption. At art school, she meets Patrick Foss, with ...
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