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Susan Conley

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Susan Conley is the author of Landslide (Knopf, February 2021): “a spectacular tale of hardship and healing. Conley has knocked it out of the park," (Lily King, Writers and Lovers). Susan's previous novel Elsey Come Home (Knopf, 2019), was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Amazon Books, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Southern Living Magazine, Fodors, The Library Journal, Maine Women’s Magazine, and others.
Susan is also the author of Paris Was the Place (Knopf, 2013), an Amazon Fall Big Books Pick for fiction, an Indie Next Pick, an Elle Magazine Readers Prize Pick, and a People magazine Top Pick. Susan’s memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf 2011), was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine and the Da
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Landslide

3.71 avg rating — 2,844 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions
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Paris Was the Place

3.47 avg rating — 1,189 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions
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The Foremost Good Fortune

3.66 avg rating — 1,056 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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Elsey Come Home

3.15 avg rating — 1,178 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions
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Maine: Life in a Day

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Paris Is Always A Good Idea: Voyage Into A Great Book!

A Blog Post By Vicki Lesage



Books about Paris are a surefire hit - from romance to mystery to intrigue, what better way to fantasize about Paris than reading a book about it, preferably over a glass of Bordeaux? I've hand-picked a selection of French-themed books below and to help you decide which ones fit your style, I've asked each author a few questions. Read their responses and check out th

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“I want to be the heroine of my story. And you, too, Elsey. You, too, be the heroine. Not the victim. Understand? Because the heroine is the one who owns the story.”
Susan Conley, Elsey Come Home

“When I'm happy like this, it's unfettered--as if I'll never feel removed from life again.”
Susan Conley

“I can’t help smiling. He’s the reminder of the best part of our family. He’s me and not me. Better than me, because he sees me from afar and still loves me in a way that I can’t always love myself. And who can do that? Stop judging themselves?”
Susan Conley, Paris Was the Place

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“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
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