About Susan Donovan Bernhard
Susan Donovan Bernhard is the bestselling author of the novels Westerly and Winter Loon, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient, a GrubStreet Novel Incubator program graduate, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and graduated from the University of Maryland. When she’s not traveling, she lives and writes in Massachusetts.
A woman and mother struggling with the loss of her husband is catapulted back to the days and years prior to his death when she discovers a letter from him with a confession and a warning: he committed a crime…
A novel of resources and exploitation, of protest and compromise, of dreams and sacrifice, Rachel Heng‘s The Great Reclamation follows Ah Boon from boyhood—when his discovery of plentiful fish around mysterious islands shores up his fishing village—through World War II, Japanese…
Family Law by Gin Phillips is set in Alabama in the early 1980s and it’s a white man’s world. Enter Lucia Gilbert, a whip-smart attorney who, by her own admission, “runs at the fight.” Lucia attracts the attention of Rachel…
In the opening pages of Maggie Shipstead’s incredible new novel Great Circle, we’re introduced to two women who will carry the story—Marian Graves, a daredevil pilot on a quest to become the first to circumnavigate the globe pole-to-pole, and actress…
Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister—which Kirkus Reviews called “bewitching”— is back with another psychological thriller Behind The Red Door, the story of a young woman, Fern Douglas, who returns to her hometown as news breaks that Astrid Sullivan,…
There is still hope. It’s not too late. That’s the message Charlotte McConaghy shares in her mesmerizing adult fiction debut Migrations (Flatiron Books, August 4, 2020). In a world teetering on the brink of disaster, where wild animals are dying out,…