Losing Charlotte
  • Published: 1 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099445562
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $19.99

Losing Charlotte

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30 Jun 2012
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1 May 2011
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An atmospheric, beautifully written and moving debut novel from a major new talent

Born and raised on a thoroughbred horse farm in the green hills of Kentucky, Knox Bolling has grown up steeped in the comforting rhythms of family life. Deep ties bind her to this safe, predictable existence, but Knox knows the world has more to offer - excitements that her tempestuous and beautiful older sister, Charlotte, seems to have within her grasp when she marries and moves away to Manhattan's West Village.

Then disaster strikes. Nothing could have prepared Knox for the loss of her sister. But the powerful bond remains, and she finds her loyalty to Charlotte tested more profoundly and fatefully than she could have imagined. As she starts to come to terms with her elusive sister's life, Knox learns deeply moving lessons for her own . . .
  • Published: 1 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099445562
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Heather Clay

Heather Clay grew up on her family's horse farm in Midway, Kentucky, and is a graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia University's School of the Arts. She has published short fiction in the New Yorker, and has contributed to Parenting Magazine and New York Times blog, The Rail. Her debut novel, Losing Charlotte, was published in 2010. She lives with her husband and two children in Katonah, New York.

Praise for Losing Charlotte

Bold and confident

International Herald Tribune

Clay expertly describes a world where the natural rhythm of nature is the basis of life - something that is important to the central character until her life is turned upside down when she loses her beloved sister, Charlotte

No. 1!

A moving debut from a writer of powerful descriptive range.

Daily Mail

Heather Clay is a graceful and assured new writer with a great gift for character: the people in her fiction are as complex, beautiful and real as they are in life. Losing Charlotte is a spellbinding first novel.

Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton
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