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Sara Donati, The Gilded Hour – Fiction, Local Author!

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Tue, 09/01/2015 - 7:00pm
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1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

In The Gilded Hour, Sara Donati delves into the lives of two descendants of her famous characters Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner from the Wilderness series: their granddaughters Liliane (Anna) and Sophie Savard who, orphaned as young children, are raised by their Aunt Quinlan in  Manhattan. The year is 1883 and New York City is aflutter with extraordinary change.  As the Brooklyn Bridge nears completion in the background, the gap between severe poverty and extreme wealth and splendor is visible on every corner.  Anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock is determined to purge the city of anything indecent, and will stop at nothing to make sure his agenda is pursued.  Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie Savard have become successful physicians, graduates from the Woman’s Medical School, and they treat the city’s most vulnerable occupants. Fans of the Wilderness series will see some glimmers of the characters they have grown to love, but new readers will enjoy The Gilded Hour as a standalone novel set in one of the most exciting times in America’s - and New York City’s - history.

Sara Donati is the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series, which includes Into the Wilderness, The Endless Forest, Queen of Swords, Fire Along the Sky, Lake in the Clouds, and Dawn on a Distant Shore.