

The story starts off with Annie, in California, living the good life. I love Susan Wiggs, I don't think there's ever been one of her books that I didn't enjoy, and Family Tree is yet another to add to that list. A former teacher and graduate of the University of Texas and Harvard, Susan is also an avid hiker, an amateur photographer, a good skier, and a cautious mountain biker-yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book.įind out more about Susan at her website, and connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. A native of a small town in upstate New York, she now lives with her husband at the water’s edge on an island in Puget Sound, and in good weather can commute to her writers’ group in a twenty-one-foot motorboat. Her award-winning books have been translated into two dozen languages.

Susan Wiggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including the beloved Lakeshore Chronicles series and her most recent novel, the instant New York Times bestseller Family Tree. Also tag and Links HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble Complex, clear-eyed and big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to remember.Ĭampaign hashtag for Twitter and Instagram posts: #FamilyTree. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm.įamily Tree is the story of one woman’s triumph over betrayal, and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned judge. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old.

And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn’t the only thing she’s lost. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And now, she’s pregnant with their first child.

The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element.
