The Lace Reader
by Brunonia Barry
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Every gift has a price . . .
Every piece of lace has a secret . . .
My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time. . . .
Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light.
The Lace Reader is a mesmerizing tale that spirals into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths in which the reader quickly finds it's nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction, but as Towner Whitney points out early on in the novel, "There are no accidents."
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Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Literature, Drowning victims, Mystery fiction, Suspense, Psychics, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2008-08-17, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Large type books, mystery & detective, women sleuths, thrillers, Women psychics, American fiction, Psişik, Roman, Amerikan romanı, Polish language materials, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Salem (mass.), fictionPeople
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The Lace Reader
2010, Windsor | Paragon
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Wróżby z koronek
2010, Albatros A. Kuryłowicz
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The Lace Reader
2008, William Morrow
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The Lace Reader
2007-07, Flap Jacket Press
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The Lace Reader (2006) is a novel by Brunonia Barry. The novel is set in Salem, Massachusetts, the American town famous for the Salem witch trials. A crucial plot device is the Ipswich lace that the protagonist's family would make.
The novel came to be well known for its unusual route to mainstream publishing. Originally self-published by the author it became a local success story, got rave reviews in many places including Publishers Weekly, and was eventually picked up by the US branch of HarperCollins in a multimillion-dollar deal.
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