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HARRIET WOLF'S SEVENTH BOOK OF WONDERS

Julianna Baggott

Harriet Wolf was one of the most famous and reclusive writers of the 20th century. During her lifetime, she hid the truth about her past, in particular, how she grew up in the Maryland School for Feebleminded Children where she fell in love with young Eppitt Clapp in the billowing steam of the industrial laundry room and how they were separated by a strange twist of fate and finally found each other again -- a doomed romance. After Harriet buried this history, she wrote six novels following the lives of two of the most beloved characters in literary history. A cult following of The Harriet Wolf Society has written hundreds of versions of Wolf's seventh book, which is rumored to exist but has never been discovered.

In THE BLOOMED LIFE OF HARRIET WOLF, we follow the lives of Harriet's fiery, overprotective daughter Eleanor, and her two grown granddaughters: Tilton, a fragile hermit who never left home, and Ruth, who ran off at sixteen and never looked back. But when Eleanor has a heart attack, Ruth decides it's time to do right by a pact she made with her younger sister long ago -- to return home and save her sister. Further complicating matters, Ruth is bent on finding their father, George, who fell in love with another woman when the girls were young. She wants to bring the family together -- one last time.

As Harriet Wolf whispers her true life story to the reader -- a tribute to her century-long love of the man named Eppitt Clapp -- the mystery of her lost seventh book hangs in the balance... Will the truth ever be known or will this final beautiful confession be lost forever?

HARRIET WOLFS SIEBTES BUCH DER WUNDER
Deutsch von Astrid Mania
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Book Published 2015-08-01 by Little, Brown (US)

Comments

Brainy, self-aware, tender, full of loss, but also full of grace and wonder. This is Julianna Baggott's best book, which is one way of saying it's one of the best book you'll read this year, or any other. -- Brock Clarke, author of AN ARSONIST'S GUIDE TO WRITERS' HOMES IN NEW ENGLAND and THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

Dazzling and ambitious, Baggott's gorgeously written new novel explores the - miracles born out of desperation - of three generations of women, all set against an astounding sweep of 20th Century history. A mesmerizing tale of a star-crossed love, and of the dark secrets of a fracturing family, the book is also a profound meditation about stories: how they create and trap us, how they protect us, and how, even amidst great tragedy, they can sometimes make us bloom. So full of wonders, it leaves you haunted, amazed, and, like every great read, irrevocably changed. --Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of IS THIS TOMORROW and PICTURES OF YOU