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Lost and Found in Paris is an LA Times Bestseller
Lost and Found in Paris spends 7 weeks on the LA Times Bestseller list after a successful book tour in Spring 2022 with dozens of live and virtual appearances, including the LA Times Festival of Books. Read more…
Lian Dolan interviewed on Friends & Fiction
The four bestselling authors of Friends and Fiction interview Lian Dolan about her latest novel, Lost and Found in Paris. Lots of laughs and life lessons from this interview. Listen here…
Publisher’s Weekly says Lost and Found In Paris has “more substance than typical Paris romp.”
We’ll take it, Publisher’s Weekly. Thanks for the review of Lost and Found in Paris. Read here…
Lian Dolan featured in Epigraph Lit Fest from Biobliolifestyle
Lian Dolan and Lost and Found in Paris chosen to be featured in Bibiolifestyle’s inaugural Epigraph Lit Fest. Check out what Lian has to say about the book and take a tour of the museum featured in opening scenes. Watch here.
Lian Dolan featured on Writer Mother Monster podcast
Lian Dolan talks about her twenty year writing career and how it dovetailed with raising two boys. Plus, she breaks down her secret to getting it all done: Controlled Compartmentalized Chaos. Listen here
Kirkus review of The Sweeney Sisters
The Sweeney sisters gather in Southport, Connecticut, for the funeral of their father, Bill Sweeney, a brilliant writer. An unexpected guest at his wake, however, will shift the foundations of their lives. Not yet lucky in love, all three sisters have nonetheless landed on their feet. Liza, the eldest, has lived a safe, comfortable life in her hometown, married to boring Whit Jones after Gray Cunningham broke her heart. But she’s created a successful career with her Sweeney Jones Gallery, selling work by local artisans, including Maggie, the middle Sweeney daughter, who has put years of wild living behind her. Tricia, the youngest, ended up in New York City, working for a prestigious law firm after her graduation from Yale. When their father’s lawyer reveals that a newly discovered half sister may lay claim to part of Bill’s estate, the sisters realize that the woman at the funeral was no stranger. In fact, she was their childhood neighbor Serena Tucker, whose mother turns out to have had an affair with Bill, which Serena learned about after having taken a DNA test. Read more…
Publisher’s Weekly review of The Sweeney Sisters
Dolan (Helen of Pasadena) weaves together in this breezy tale the stories of three sisters whose family is disrupted after the death of their famous father. While Liza, the oldest daughter of acclaimed author William Sweeney, meets with potential clients in her Southport, Conn., gallery, she receives word of William’s fatal heart attack after years of heavy drinking. While the middle sister, Maggie, a talented artist also living in western Connecticut, struggles with depression and making ends meet, youngest Tricia has distinguished herself with a successful law career. Brought together in Southport to hear the will, the sisters learn that William had another daughter two years before Liza, and they close ranks against their half-sister, whom they’ve long known as Serena Tucker, who was raised as an only child next door to the Sweeneys. Read more…
Book Club Girl Afternoon Out!
Readers can enjoy appetizers and engaging conversation with six bestselling authors plus a book club swag bag at this exciting event presented by Book Club Girl. Sponsored by William Morrow. Readers can attend two 40 minute moderated author panels, have tea/refreshments where the authors will mix and mingle with event guests in a movable feast-type rotation and sign your books. Learn more…
Harper Collins Announcement
An accomplished storyteller returns with her biggest, boldest, most entertaining novel yet—a hilarious, heartfelt story about books, love, sisterhood, and the surprises we discover in our DNA that combines the wit of Jonathan Tropper with the heart of Susan Wiggs… By turns revealing, insightful, and uproarious, The Sweeney Sisters is equal parts cautionary tale and celebration—a festive and heartfelt look at what truly makes a family. Learn more…
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