The Lines Between Us
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My beloved grandchildren, Liliana and Oliver Norman, playing with you, reading to you, and listening to you, helps me to put things in perspective and remember what is important in life.
Most of all, thank you to my wonderful husband, Art D’Harlingue, for not only indulging but encouraging all of my varied interests over the years. You stood behind me when I said I didn’t want to look back at the end of my life and wish I had tried to write a novel. There must have been times when you thought I’d never finish it, but you never let on. You patiently supported me and listened to the never-ending details about the road to finishing a book, and then getting it published. Your support and your love mean everything to me.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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REBECCA D’HARLINGUE has done graduate work in Spanish literature, worked as a hospital administrator, and taught English as a Second Language to adults from all over the world. The discovery of family papers prompted her to explore the repercussions of family secrets, and of the ways we attempt to reveal ourselves.
She shares her love of story both with preschoolers at a Head Start program, and with the members of the book club she has belonged to for decades. D’Harlingue lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, Arthur, where they are fortunate to frequently spend time with their children and grandchildren.
SELECTED TITLES FROM SHE WRITES PRESS
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The Black Velvet Coat by Jill G. Hall. $16.95, 978-1-63152-009-9. When the current owner of a black velvet coat—a San Francisco artist in search of inspiration—and the original owner, a 1960s heiress who fled her affluent life fifty years earlier, cross paths, their lives are forever changed . . . for the better.
Estelle by Linda Stewart Henley. $16.95, 978-1-63152-791-3. From 1872 to ’73, renowned artist Edgar Degas called New Orleans home. Here, the narratives of two women—Estelle, his Creole cousin and sister-in-law, and Anne Gautier, who in 1970 finds a journal written by a relative who knew Degas—intersect . . . and a painting Degas made of Estelle spells trouble.
Portrait of a Woman in White by Susan Winkler. $16.95, 978-1-938314-83-4. When the Nazis steal a Matisse portrait from the eccentric, art-loving Rosenswigs, the Parisian family is thrust into the tumult of war and separation, their fates intertwined with that of their beloved portrait.
The Island of Worthy Boys by Connie Hertzberg Mayo. $16.95, 978-1-63152-001-3. In early-19th-century Boston, two adolescent boys escape arrest after accidentally killing a man by conning their way into an island school for boys—a perfect place to hide, as long as they can keep their web of lies from unraveling.
The Vintner’s Daughter by Kristen Harnisch. $16.95, 978-163152-929-0. Set against the sweeping canvas of French and California vineyard life in the late 1890s, this is the compelling tale of one woman’s struggle to reclaim her family’s Loire Valley vineyard —and her life.
The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger. $16.95, 978-1-63152-907-8. A compelling and powerful story of two girls—cousins living on separate continents—whose strikingly different lives are forever changed when the Nazis invade Vilna, Lithuania.