Book Tour Exclusive “A Great Marriage” // Frances Mayes in Conversation with Patti Callahan Henry

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Charleston Library Society

Book Tour Exclusive “A Great Marriage” // Frances Mayes in Conversation with Patti Callahan Henry

Just days after publication, the Library Society and Buxton Books are proud to host New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes. A not-to-miss evening, Mayes will take the audience through her latest publication, A Great Marriage. She will be joined in conversation by Patti Callahan Henry, fellow New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, including her newest, The Secret Book of Flora Lea.

Secure your seat for this exclusive opportunity to join the audience with one of the most acclaimed storytellers of the era.

Tickets*: PURCHASE HERE

$ 40 – Members & General Admission // 1 Ticket and 1 signed copy of A Great Marriage

NOTE: If you are unable to attend the program, and wish to secure a signed copy (or copies!), please pre-order through the following link: A Great Marriage or call Buxton Books at (843) 723-1670.

This is a collaborative event with Buxton Books, guest information such as email and name will be shared between both parties for promotional purposes only.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. If love at first sight can happen, it happens to them. These two vivid, ambitious people are on different courses—he’s British, working temporarily in New York. She’s from North Carolina, set on law school. They don’t care. They will make their lives together happen. At their April engagement dinner at Dara’s family home, her mother, Lee, sets a beautiful table, and the family and close friends gather to celebrate. Rich, Dara’s father, raises a toast. Suddenly, Lee spills the wine, a brilliant red stain splashing onto the tablecloth and onto Austin.Days later, Austin hears unsettling news from London that wrecks their plans. Dara abruptly cancels the wedding. She refuses to reveal the reason, not even to her best friends or her parents or grandmother, disrupting their family tradition of openness. As everyone knows, Lee and Rich have a great marriage, and Charlotte, her grandmother, had a colossal one, to the late Senator Mann. Charlotte literally wrote the book on the subject: She’s the author of international bestsellers on what makes a good or possibly a great marriage.While Dara escapes to California and Indigo Island, South Carolina, Austin, back in London, faces a major tragedy, the consequences of which are life-altering. But it’s Lee, Dara’s mother, whose impulsive visit to London alters their fate.With her signature warmth, humor, and incisive style, beloved author Frances Mayes creates a multigenerational probe into the complexity of love and the great mystery ride of marriage. A novel of casual choices and fateful consequences, A Great Marriage introduces two unforgettable families and the arrival of a stranger who rearranges their futures.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Frances Mayes is the author of four books about Tuscany, including the now-classic Under the Tuscan Sun, which was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years and became a Touchstone movie starring Diane Lane. It was followed by Bella Tuscany and two illustrated books, In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home. She is also the author of the novel Swan, six books of poetry, and The Discovery of Poetry. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her most recent books are Women in Sunlight and A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home. Mayes and her work have been featured on “CBS Sunday Morning,” and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, among other outlets.

ABOUT PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY

Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times, Globe and Mail, and USA Today bestselling author of seventeen novels, including her newest, The Secret Book of Flora Lea. She’s also a podcast host of original content for her novels, Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the recipient of The Christy Award “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti also was a contributor to the monthly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. She’s published in numerous anthologies, articles, and short story collections, including an Audible Original about Florence Nightingale, titled Wild Swan narrated by the Tony Award winner, Cynthia Erivo. A full-time author, mother of three, and grandmother of two, she lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama with her husband, Pat Henry.

Her newest novel, The Secret Book of Flora Lea, is set outside Oxford in the hamlet of Binsey and was released May 2, 2023, with Simon & Schuster Atria and is available now.