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Book Spotlight: So Far Away by Meg Mitchell Moore & Giveaway (US only)

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Happy Sunday everyone!  I hope you’ve all had a great weekend!  Today I’m going to spotlight So Far Away by Meg Mitchell Moore, which releases on May 29 for you all!  This is one book I really want to read and I’ll tell you why.  The story has to do with a diary from the 1920’s that a young girl unearths in her mother’s basement and together with an archivist they try to unlock the secrets of the diary.  Oh my, what could be better. I just love stories like that!  So I’m going to share what the book is about with you although I’ve already given a fair amount away and then make sure to check out the giveaway at the end of the post for your chance too win a copy.

 

About So Far Away (from Amazon)

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents’ ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to either neglect or despise her. Her salvation arrives in an unlikely form: Bridget O’Connell, an Irish maid working for a wealthy Boston family. The catch? Bridget lives only in the pages of a dusty old 1920s diary Natalie unearthed in her mother’s basement. But the life she describes is as troubling – and mysterious – as the one Natalie is trying to navigate herself, almost a century later.

I am writing this down because this is my story. There were only ever two people who knew my secret, and both are gone before me.

Who was Bridget, and what became of her?

Natalie escapes into the diary, eager to unlock its secrets, and reluctantly accepts the help of library archivist Kathleen Lynch, a widow with her own painful secret: she’s estranged from her only daughter. Kathleen sees in Natalie traces of the daughter she has lost, and in Bridget, another spirited young woman at risk.

What could an Irish immigrant domestic servant from the 1920s teach them both? As the troubles of a very modern world close in around them, and Natalie’s torments at school escalate, the faded pages of Bridget’s journal unite the lonely girl and the unhappy widow – and might even change their lives forever.

Buy at: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, B&N, and IndieBound

 

About Meg Mitchell Moore (from Meg’s website)

Meg Mitchell Moore worked for several years as a journalist. Her work has been published in Yankee, Continental, Women’s Health, Advertising Age and many other business and consumer magazines. She received a B.A. from Providence College and a master’s degree in English Literature from New York University. The Arrivals is her first novel. Her second novel will be published by Reagan Arthur Books in 2012. Meg lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with her husband, their three children and a beloved border collie.

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GIVEAWAY DETAILS (US only)

I have one copy of So Far Away by Meg Mitchell Moore to share with my US readers only.  To enter…

  • For 1 entry simply leave me a comment entering the giveaway.
  • For 2 entries, follow my blog.  If you already do, thank you, and please let me know so I can pass that extra entry on to you as well.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word.

This giveaway is open to US residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winner on Saturday, June 9/12.  Good luck everyone!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. This book sounds wonderful. I love stories built around a diary. Thanks for the giveaway.

    I’m a GFC follower

  8. I’ve read nothing but great things about The Arrivals so I would love to read this one too!

  9. This sounds like a very interesting story. One that I would love to read.

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

  11. Wonderful story which is captivating. Thanks for this chance. I subscribe via e-mail.

  13. I have her book, The Arrivals, sitting on my massive mountain I call the TBR pile. I’d love to read this one too.

  14. Sounds like a great read and one my daughter would enjoy as well.
    PMNSL95 at triad dot rr dot com

  25. I love books like these, with the elements of mystery and drama combined. tHANK YOU so MUCH for offering this book as a giveaway…I’d LOVE to be read it! 🙂

    Name: Hira Hasnain
    Email: Enamoredsoul(at)gmail(dot)com

  34. I would love to read this book—thanks for the opportunity to win a copy!

  37. This sounds like a great read. Please count me in.

    patricia dot mariani dot esq at gmail dot com

  40. This sounds really good! I follow you and tweeted this entry. @laureneverafter

  41. This looks like a fantastic book!!! I would loved this for my classroom. I am a follower by Google RSS feeder.

  45. This sounds like a great book.
    Thanks for the wonderful contest and a chance to win
    (which I hope I do)!

  46. Oh, I loved this book and felt it was so intense and masterful. It was a very sad story, but it left me feeling hopeful after all had played out. Great review on this one, my friend.

  47. Don’t know why, but this book sounds interesting. It’s not my normal historical romance… 🙂

  48. This sounds like a wonderful story to become wrapped up in. I love reading books about other peoples lives. There is nothing like drawing a picture in my mind of how they look a what their surroundings are like. Thanks so much for offering this book in the giveaway. I’m a follower and of course I tweeted. Hug Sammy for me and have a wonderful weekend.
    https://twitter.com/Dyniy/status/207335158788014080

  56. Would love to read this one! I follow by email and GFC. Thanks for all of your great giveaways!

  62. I would love to win a copy of this book. Thanks for the chance.

    nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

  73. Thanks for this amazing giveaway! This book sounds great and I would love to win it!

  77. I think it would be so neat to find someone’s old diary hidden in your house! Hopefully it would be alot more interesting than my diary/journals. I think I should make sure someone destroys them when I die, so no one can read them!

    I think this sounds like a great book. Please enter me Darlene!
    I also follow you on email.

    cjay (at) iavalley (dot) edu

  78. I just finished So Far Away this weekend, it was very good, looking forward to reading her first novel The Arrivals.