Pre-release: Expected April 8, 2025
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A young romance writer makes a discovery that throws her elitist family into chaos in this sharp, witty and entirely delightful family drama for fans of Elinor Lipman and Jennifer Weiner.
Emma Page grew up the black sheep in a bookish household, raised to believe that fine literature is the only worthy type of fiction. Her parents, self-proclaimed "serious" authors who run their own vanity press, The Mighty Pages, mingle in highbrow social circles that look down on anything too popular or mainstream, while her sister, Jess, is a powerful social media influencer whose stylish reviews can make or break a novel.
Hiding her own romance manuscript from her disapproving parents, Emma finds inspiration at the family cottage among the "fluff" they despise: the juicy summer romances that belonged to her late grandmother. But a chance discovery unearthed from her Gigi's belongings reveals a secret that has the power to ruin her parents' business and destroy their reputation in the industry—a secret that has already fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous publishing insider with a grudge to settle. Now Emma must decide—as much as she's dreamed of the day when her parents are forced to confront their own egos, can she really just sit back and watch The Mighty Pages be exposed and their legacy destroyed?
From the wealthy enclaves of the Hamptons to the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, The Page Turner is a delectable glimpse inside the world of publishing, and Viola Shipman's most glittering achievement yet!
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780369732743
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780369732743
- File size: 1218 KB
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- English
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Reviews
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November 1, 2024
Shipman (Famous in a Small Town), a pseudonym for Wade Rouse, pens a bookish family drama. Emma Page's parents are snobby literary authors. Knowing that her family would disapprove, Emma hides her romance manuscript from them. Then she unearths secrets at the family cottage that could ruin her parents' reputation and has to decide what to do. With a 75K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.
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Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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March 1, 2025
Emma would be content to stay in her grandmother's Michigan lakeside home instead of joining the family's snobby New York publishing house, one that only publishes high art, but not particularly salable, titles. She is secretly finishing a novel that she is sure will sell, though her family will never publish it. Her grandmother brought her up on happy endings and self-determination, and Emma feels the family has lost its way and has run through the legacy left to them. She also sees real danger in the proposed partnership with Marcus Flare, an uberpopular brand of a writer whose secret intention is to ruin Emma's family. Sleuthing and clever work with her sister and friends reveal the motives and inner workings of Flare's plot, and this, combined with loyalty and talent, undoes his conniving. Shipman's latest (after The Wishing Bridge, 2023) is a sweet if overly tangled story that emphasizes tradition over trends, storytelling over art, and family above all. A worthy addition for fiction collections.COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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