Book of the Month: July

My favorite book for July is Patti Callahan Henry's The Story She Left Behind. It's an engaging story based upon a real mystery.  The main character is Clara Harrington. Clara’s mother, renowned author Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappeared off the coast of South Carolina when Clara was a child. The body was never found and Clara always hoped that she would find her some day. Bronwyn wrote a book in an language that she invented.

When Clara is a mother herself she receives a call from a gentleman in London who states that he has her mother’s notebook and that the invented language is inside it's pages. This makes Clara hope that her mother survived her alleged drowning in South Carolina. What follows is an engrossing tale of what happened to Bronwyn. 

This was a fantastic read and I highly recommend it.