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Susanna Kearsley

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New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, interweaving romance and historical intrigue with modern adventure.

Her books, published in translation in more than 20 countries, have won the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards, a RITA Award, and National Readers’ Choice Awards, and have finaled for the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year and the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.

She lives near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

(Aka Emma Cole, a pseudonym she used for one novel, Every Secret Thing, a thriller which at the time was intended to be the first of a trilogy featuring he ...more

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Bellewether Tour Dates for USA

Hi everybody!

Just a reminder of where I'll be stopping next week on my tour to celebrate the American publication of BELLEWETHER...

Sunday, August 5 @ 2pm:
Central Rappahannock Regional Library
1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Monday, August 6 @ 6:30pm:
High Point Museum
1859 East Lexington Ave., High Point, NC 27262

Tuesday, August 7 @ 6pm:
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	The Winter Sea (Slains, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 56,558 ratings — published 2008 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rose Garden 4.03 avg rating — 27,652 ratings — published 2011 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mariana 4.07 avg rating — 21,880 ratings — published 1994 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Firebird (Slains, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 23,647 ratings — published 2013 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadowy Horses 3.94 avg rating — 18,052 ratings — published 1997 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Splendour Falls 3.73 avg rating — 9,452 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bellewether 3.94 avg rating — 8,676 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Season of Storms 3.69 avg rating — 7,540 ratings — published 2001 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Named of the Dragon 3.81 avg rating — 7,707 ratings — published 1998 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Susanna Kearsley voted for The Night Fire (Renée Ballard, #3) as Best Mystery & Thriller in the Semifinal Round of the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards. Cast Your Vote
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Susanna Kearsley answered a question about A Desperate Fortune: Does anyone know if this is in any way a tie-in to another book like The Winter Sea or The Firebird, since there is a Jacobite theme again? Thanks! :) Hi Maya. This isn't a sequel to any of the books, but Anna from The Firebird does make a brief guest appearance in an early chapter, and if you've read others of my novels you may glimpse a few familiar faces in the contemporary section. This happens See Full Answer
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Full disclosure here, because Lauren is a friend of mine and I love her writing and her books, but I honestly think she outdid herself in The Ashford Affair. Highly recommended.
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Susanna Kearsley made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Need Your Advice (and Help) RE: Series Designation topic " Thanks, Amanda. That sounds great. And I'm happy to leave it to you to decide on the wording. As I said above, I feel (pretty strongly) that authors s ...more "
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Quotes by Susanna Kearsley

“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Mariana

tags: change, life, past

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“But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

tags: life-lessons

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“Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

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September BoTM Nominations ~ Time Travel- 1st poll.

Top 5 books move onto the second poll!!

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

12 votes, 17.9%

11/22/63

by Stephen King

11 votes, 16.4%

The House on the Strand

by Daphne du Maurier

9 votes, 13.4%

Once in Every Life

by Kristin Hannah

9 votes, 13.4%

The Rose Garden

by Susanna Kearsley

8 votes, 11.9%

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

5 votes, 7.5%

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4 votes, 6.0%

When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead

4 votes, 6.0%

Lightning

by Dean Koontz

3 votes, 4.5%

Somewhere In Time

by Richard Matheson

2 votes, 3.0%

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