**A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times
bestseller!
"A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family
ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering
truth."--Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's
Wife**
In New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical
novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library,
leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces.
It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of
life--her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library,
allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building,
and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura
wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the
Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her
studies take her all over the city, she is drawn to Greenwich Village's
new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club--a radical,
all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their
opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura
finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. And
when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home
and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting
priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process.
Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of
her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's
wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But
the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and
books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the
library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit
and her career, the typically risk-averse Sadie teams up with a private
security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly
become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome
truths about her own family heritage--truths that shed new light on the
biggest tragedy in the library's history.
