It’s like the great English author Anthony Trollope is alive again. Portraying a vibrant web of human relationships in all their beauty and complexity.
– Tony Anthony, journalist, filmmaker, and award-winning author of Long Before the Next War
THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING
Piper Hammond has the perfect view to watch the world go by. Tucked up inside her family’s historic home, she records the ins and outs of life in Riverboro in her magazine Riverboro Rocks. But when a catastrophic storm brings the town to a halt, Piper’s world spirals quickly out of control. Her once peaceful home is suddenly filled with displaced monks, lie-crafting teenagers, and big promises from a fringe politician, including one to get three-year-old Donny on TV. As Piper struggles to wrench her life out of the hands of over-eager guests and a nefarious blonde, she starts to realize that a cheerful blog is a long way from a perfect life. When calamity strikes and the house itself turns against her, Piper must choose to step outside her perfect narrative or be trapped for good.
ABOUT LINDA
Linda R. Spitzfaden, working as Linda Ruth, has been a columnist, business writer, magazine consultant, and web editor. She is co-founder and past-president of Exceptional Women in Publishing and partnered with the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the Stanford and Yale Publishing Courses. She has been named one of the top three thought leaders in publishing by the Mequoda Group, and has published three books in her field. The Other Side of Everything, her first novel, has been compared to the work of Anthony Trollope by Tony Anthony (Long Before the Next War) and called “funny and heartbreaking, the best read of the year” by Cathy Utzschneider (professor at Boston College and author of Move!). Watch for more stories about the fictional town of Riverboro, New Hampshire.