Ask the Author: Tori Whitaker
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Tori Whitaker
Hi Charline! I have taken snapshots of the book stacks I used for the Bourboun/Kentucky storyline for you, and these go well beyond the few I hightlight as principle sources in my Acknowledgements (which I know aren't included in Audible version anyway). But I see now that this Goodreads chat function doesn't give me an opportunity to add attachments. So I suggest you shoot me a quick message through my website's Contact page linked here, which goes straight to my inbox. I'll send you the sources via email right away! Thanks for being on the book club zoom last night! Tori https://toriwhitaker.com/contact/
Tori Whitaker
The research. I've loved history since I was a child, and I love learning new things about the past!
Tori Whitaker
My novel shifts between modern day and the early 1950s--the baby
boom era--in Cincinnati. While the story is fictional, the historical thread draws heavily from a secret tragedy long ago in my family. The modern narrative follows Millicent Glenn at the age of 90, when circumstances trigger her memories of events six decades before. I have long been inspired by novels that show elderly characters who are survivors, who look back on life's traumas through new eyes. Examples include Orphan Train, The House at Riverton, and Along the Infinite Sea. The structure of these books inspired me. And it seems readers also enjoy the interplay of past and present with The Nightingale, The Seven Wives of Evelyn Hugo, The Last Romantics. I could go on and on about stories of strong protagonists who we meet at two times in their lives, both young and old.
boom era--in Cincinnati. While the story is fictional, the historical thread draws heavily from a secret tragedy long ago in my family. The modern narrative follows Millicent Glenn at the age of 90, when circumstances trigger her memories of events six decades before. I have long been inspired by novels that show elderly characters who are survivors, who look back on life's traumas through new eyes. Examples include Orphan Train, The House at Riverton, and Along the Infinite Sea. The structure of these books inspired me. And it seems readers also enjoy the interplay of past and present with The Nightingale, The Seven Wives of Evelyn Hugo, The Last Romantics. I could go on and on about stories of strong protagonists who we meet at two times in their lives, both young and old.
Tori Whitaker
I love 20th-century historical fiction--so many good books these days, from stories of Prohibition to WWII to the fifties and sixties. But if I only got one shot to go back in time, it would be to the late 1700s ... perhaps to the setting of Emma Donoghue's early novel, LIFE MASK, centered on art in the aristocratic world of London. I adore England!
Tori Whitaker
I read everything that J. Courtney Sullivan writes, so I'm anxious to read her summer release, FRIENDS AND STRANGERS. The author really puts us in her characters' heads! And there's sure to be wisdom and insight on motherhood.
And there's a debut author named Liza Nash Taylor whose novel comes out in August that I'm dying to read. ETIQUETTE FOR RUNAWAYS looks like a fascinating historical fiction story of the Jazz Age in NYC and Paris!
And there's a debut author named Liza Nash Taylor whose novel comes out in August that I'm dying to read. ETIQUETTE FOR RUNAWAYS looks like a fascinating historical fiction story of the Jazz Age in NYC and Paris!
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