Friends of Florence County
Library will host the following New York Times bestselling author at the
Doctors Bruce and Lee Foundation Library, 509 S. Dargan Street, Florence, SC
29506
PATTI
CALAHAN HENRY
Her new novel
THE IDEA OF LOVE
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2015 6:30 PM
From New York Times bestselling author Patti Henry, comes
a riveting drama about the about the lengths we go to for love.
Screenwriter Harper has had two flops in succession. He
needs a hit and he needs it badly. Empty of any new ideas and crippled with
writer's block, he decides that he will "steal" a love story. He
can’t do that in Hollywood, so he heads to the East Coast for change of
scenery, some new ideas, and above all, that good love story he needs. Taking
on a fake identity as a historian interested in local folklore, he interviews
townsfolk under the guise of getting to know their family stories. And in
Bluff, SC he meets Ella, a beautiful young woman who has lost her true love in
a sailing accident; he drowned while saving her. Harper believes he has finally
found his story: a love big enough to sacrifice your life for. But the thing
is, Ella isn't telling the truth. Her husband left her; she has a crappy job
selling shoes, and she lost her best friend in the divorce. In desperate need
of a love story herself, Ella tells Harper the story of the life she wishes she
had, and in the process, starts acting like the woman she wishes she'd always
been. Whenever Ella tells Harper more of the made-up version of her life—her
idea of love—she thinks, "one more time." But soon they are both too
deep into the lies to get out. Add dysfunctional families, small town chaos,
eccentric neighbors and exes on both sides, the knot of lies looks too tight to
undo.
Can two people come together for all the wrong reasons
and still make it right?
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is a full-time writer,
wife, and mother. She is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels
include And Then I Found You, Between the
Tides, and Driftwood Summer. Patti lives with her husband and three
children in Mountain Brook, Alabama, where she is working on her next novel
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