Summer Fiction Night with Bestselling Novelists Beatriz Williams & Claire Lombardo

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Favorite Author Series and The Novel Neighbor are  pleased to host a special event with two of the top authors in popular fiction both with new summer hits - bestselling novelists Beatriz Williams and Claire Lombardo.   

The event will take place on Monday, July 8, 7:00 p.m. at the Clark Family Branch, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd, St. Louis MO 63131.

Beatriz Williams is the New York Times, and internationally bestselling author of “The Summer Wives,” “The Golden Hour,” and several other works of historical fiction.

In Williams’s latest hit, “Husbands & Lovers,” two women–separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom—reclaim secrets and lost loves.

Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier.

Claire Lombardo's debut novel, “The Most Fun We Ever Had,” was an instant New York Times bestseller and has been optioned for television by Reese Witherspoon. 

Lombardo’s second novel, “Same As It Ever Was,” showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made “The Most Fun We Ever Had” one of the most beloved novels of the past decade. 

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. She’s unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spikey teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor’s edge.

A brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present, “Same As It Ever Was” traverses the rocky terrain of real life.

Program sites are accessible. With at least two weeks' notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Call 314-994-3300 or contact us.