Wendy Webb (1)
Auteur de The Tale of Halcyon Crane
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Wendy Webb, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Steve Burmeister
Œuvres de Wendy Webb
Sleeping Cities 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Webb, Wendy K.
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA (birth)
- Lieu de naissance
- St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Duluth, Minnesota, USA - Études
- University of Minnesota
- Professions
- congressional aide
journalist
novelist - Organisations
- City Pages [Minneapolis, MN]
Duluth Superior Magazine (editor-in-chief) - Prix et distinctions
- Minnesota Book Award (2011)
Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Horror (nominated) - Agent
- Jennifer Weltz (Jean Naggar Literary)
- Courte biographie
- Wendy K. Webb is an American fiction author. Her books have received several awards, including the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011 and 2017.
Webb was born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. When Webb was in grade school, the school librarian encouraged her to read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. After reading that book, she knew from that point on that she was destined to be an author.
She attended the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with a major in political science and minors in French and history. Immediately after graduation, she lived in France with two of her friends. Upon returning to the United States, she got an internship in Washington, D.C. with a congressman, and later with a Minnesota senator.
After returning to Minnesota, Webb got her first writing job with a Minneapolis-based weekly arts and entertainment newsletter, City Pages. Webb has also written for as the Huffington Post and USA Today. She was the editor-in-chief of a lifestyle monthly, Duluth Superior Magazine, until the publication closed in 2014.
Webb's first novel, The Tale of Halcyon Crane, is a modern ghost story that won the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011. Her second novel, The Fate of Mercy Alban, depicts the uncovering of a hidden family scandal. The book was on the Indie Bestseller List for six weeks. The End of Temperance Dare, won the Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction in 2017. Her most recent novel, Daughters of the Lake, hit Number One on the Amazon bestseller list and was published in 2018.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 2,274
- Popularité
- #11,284
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 186
- ISBN
- 66
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 5
The story line switches back and forth between present day Kate, and a 100-year-old love story between Addie and Jess. The love story is fascinatingly told, and each time the author makes them the focus it becomes increasingly suspenseful. Kate needs to distance herself from the lake where she found the woman’s body, so she moves in with her cousin, Simon, who operates a bed and breakfast in their family’s historic, grand mansion. Kate doesn’t spend much time recuperating from either her pending divorce, or trauma of finding the dead woman. Instead, she launches herself into a research project where she learns about her ancestors who lived in the home and tries to learn the identity of the mysterious woman. Kate’s dreams and paranormal activities in the mansion are instrumental in her search for answers and justice.
The ending was perfect. Some aspects of the story were tied up neatly, while other pieces left just enough for the imagination. In the author’s note, Wendy explained that the town of Wharton is fictional; however, it’s based on the real life town, Bayfield, Wisconsin. The mansion in the story is modeled after Le Chateau Boutin, a place Wendy stayed with friends to celebrate her birthday. Of course I had to Google it! It’s a beautiful Queen Anne Victorian bed and breakfast. And it is exactly as I imagined the mansion while reading this book. You can check out this gorgeous Victorian mansion here.
Daughters of the Lake is a great book, and I truly enjoyed my time with the characters. I’ve read of couple of other books by Wendy Webb and really enjoyed her work. So, when I saw Daughters of the Lake as an option to borrow on Amazon Prime Reads, I immediately added it to my library. One of the many things I appreciate about Amazon Prime Reads, is that I can add an ebook to my library, and it will patiently wait for me to read it.
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