Ann Hood and Laura Spence-Ash are the featured authors at this year’s Summer Reading Soirée hosted by Princeton Public Library on Wednesday, July 10. The event will be held at Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
The authors discuss their recent novels during the annual gathering of area book lovers featuring refreshments, door prizes, and more. Library staff will also be on hand to interact with attendees and share titles for summer reading.
Ann Hood’s book, “The Stolen Child,” is the story of an elderly man who is haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, involving a French artist and her baby. With only months left to live, he enlists a young woman to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they’ve left behind.
“Beyond That, the Sea” by Laura Spence-Ash during World War 11. As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson decide to send their 11-year-old daughter to America to live with another family for the duration of the war. When she returns to post-war London, the memory of her American family stays with her, never fully letting her go.
The Summer Reading Soirée also offers a chance to stroll the grounds of Morven which served as the New Jersey governor’s mansion for nearly four decades and is a National Historic Landmark.
Registration is requested through the events calendar at princeteonlibrary.org. Space is limited.
