Author to talk about latest novel
Published 12:18 pm Friday, August 14, 2015
Jennifer Steil will visit Eagle Harbor Book Company in downtown Winslow to discuss her new novel “The Ambassador’s Wife” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20.
From a real-life ambassador’s wife comes this harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited.
When bohemian artist Miranda falls in love with Finn, the British ambassador to an Arab country, she finds herself thrust into a life for which she has no preparation. The couple and their toddler live in a stately mansion with a staff to meet their every need, but for Miranda even this luxury comes at a price: the loss of freedom. Diplomatic life is a far cry from Miranda’s first years in Mazrooq, which were spent painting and mentoring a group of young Muslim women, teaching them to draw in ways forbidden in their culture.
Trailed everywhere by bodyguards to protect her from the dangers of a country wracked by civil war and forced to give up the work she loves, she finds her world shattered when she is taken hostage.
Steil is also the author of “The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Woman’s Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth.”
Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com to learn more about this and other upcoming author events.
