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Lauren Willig


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Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance novels. Her books follow a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel as they fight for Britain and fall in love. A native of New York City, Willig discovered romance novels when she was only six years old, while she was attempting to find books about her idol, Eleanor of Acquitaine.

Willig attended Yale University, where she majored in Renaissance Studies and Political Science, then studied graduate level early modern European history at Harvard University before entering and graduating from Harvard Law School. Willig briefly worked for Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a law firm in New York, while authoring her "Pink Carnation" series of books, until she gave up law in order to focus full time on the series.
 

Genres: Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Mystery, Cozy Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
Novels
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Collections
   Fall of Poppies (2016) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Ivy & Intrigue (2011)
   The Record Set Right (2016)
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Lauren Willig recommends
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The Porcelain Maker (2023)
Sarah Freethy
"Like the portrait of the Viking at the heart of her story, Sarah Freethy's The Porcelain Maker exists on two levels: on the surface, a story about a woman's search for the truth about her parentage, tracing the forgotten by the objects they left behind, and, beneath it, a heartbreaking story of beauty in the midst of brutality and love in an age of hate as two young artists fight to stay alive and together amid the horrors of Nazi rule in 1940s Germany. A story that will move and surprise you - and leave you reaching for the tissue box as the final details unfold."
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Hotel Laguna (2023)
Nicola Harrison
"Nicola Harrison captures all the turmoil of the post war world, of the women who found factory work until the men came home-- and then found themselves with no place to go, except back home. But what about the women who don't have a home to go back to? In Hotel Laguna, a destitute and desperate young woman finds an unexpected home and sense of purpose when she takes a job with an aging artist, never guessing that finding his secrets will also help her find herself. You'll feel like you've dipped your toes in the sand of Laguna Beach. The perfect book to slip into your beach bag."
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The Porcelain Moon (2023)
Janie Chang
"I'm so grateful to Janie Chang for bringing to life a side of the Great War - and France! - that one seldom sees: the Chinese laborers who came over to aid the war effort and the members of the Chinese community in Paris who volunteered as translators. Chang creates a fascinating, immersive story of worlds intertwining, a story of friendship, love, found family, and finding one's own place in a rapidly changing world."

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Anthologies containing stories by Lauren Willig
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A Paris All Your Own (2017)
Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light
edited by
Eleanor Brown
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Jane Austen Made Me Do It (2011)
Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart
edited by
Laurel Ann Nattress

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