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Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

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Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop was born and raised in New York City. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. in fiction from the UC Irvine, where she was the recipient of the Schaeffer Writing Fellowship. She is the author of FIREWORKS, DECEMBER and THE WHY OF THINGS. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter and St. Bernard.

Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

Books by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop - Fiction

Since the tragic loss of her 17-year-old daughter less than a year ago, Joan Jacobs has been working hard to keep her tight-knit family from coming apart. But she and her husband, Anders, are unable to snap back from their isolation into the familiarity and warmth they so desperately need. So they flee to their summer home in search of peace and renewal, but moments after they arrive, the family is confronted with an eerily similar tragedy.