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In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant becomes wet-nurse to the newborn baby of the powerful Cappelletti family. Serving her beloved Juliet over fourteen years, she learns the household?s darkest secrets. Those secrets ? and the nurse?s deep personal grief ? erupt across five momentous days of love and loss that destroy a daughter and a family.
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Lois Leveen
Award-winning author Lois Leveen dwells in the spaces where literature and history meet. A confirmed book geek, Lois earned degrees in history and literature from Harvard, the University of Southern California, and UCLA, and taught at UCLA and at Reed College. In addition to her novels JULIET'S NURSE and THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER, she has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, and her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous books, literary journals, and on NPR. Lois gives talks about history and literature at libraries, bookstores, universities, museums, teacher training programs, and conferences throughout the world. She lives in a bright green house in Portland, Oregon, with a charming, bipedal Newfoundlander.
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