A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times bestseller! A page-turner for
booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties their lost dreams and the redemption that
comes from discovering truth. Adriana Trigiani bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife In
New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel a series of book
thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library leaving two generations of strong-willed women
to pick up the pieces. It's 1913 and on the surface Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of
life her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library allowing their family to
live in an apartment within the grand building and they are blessed with two children. But
headstrong passionate Laura wants more and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the
Columbia Journalism School her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over
the city she is drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia where she discovers the Heterodoxy
Club a radical all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions
on suffrage birth control and women's rights. Soon Laura finds herself questioning her
traditional role as wife and mother. And when valuable books are stolen back at the library
threatening the home and institution she loves she's forced to confront her shifting
priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later in
1993 Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother the famous essayist Laura
Lyons especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public
Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts notes and books for
the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection.
Determined to save both the exhibit and her career the typically risk-averse Sadie teams up
with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However things unexpectedly become
personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family
heritage truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history.
