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Date with an Author is excited to welcome story editor, former actress, and veteran author of Finding Mrs. Ford, Deborah Goodrich Royce, to discuss her new chilling psychological thriller Ruby Falls. Royce will be joined in conversation by Laura Matthews, Cos Cob Library branch manager.
Registration is available through the Library’s online calendar. Registrants will receive a link to the pre-recorded interview, which will go live on Wednesday, May 26, at 7:00 p.m. The interview will also be available for viewing afterward on the Greenwich Library YouTube channel.
Royce’s first novel, Finding Mrs. Ford, debuted in 2019 to rave reviews. Her latest novel. Ruby Falls, is a nail-biting tale of a fragile young actress, the new husband she barely knows, and her growing suspicion that the secrets he harbors may eclipse her own. It begins on a brilliantly sunny July day, when six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in a dark Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden.
Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a dream role—the lead in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie gothic tale, Orlando’s personality changes, ghosts of her past reemerge, and Eleanor fears she is not the only person in her marriage with a secret.
The publisher calls Ruby Falls a thrilling and twisty homage to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The story ricochets through the streets of Los Angeles, a dangerous marriage to an exotic stranger, and the mind of a young woman whose past may not free her.
Kirkus Reviews calls Royce’s prose taut and propulsive, adding that “Ruby Falls inhabits a hallucinatory Hollywood where fact and fiction mingle freely and even the smallest acts can feel ominous…an enjoyable pastiche with plenty of twists and turns.”
Royce divides her time between the Northeast and Florida, where she writes, reads, watches movies and spends time with her family. She serves on the governing and/or advisory boards of the Avon Theatre, the American Film Institute, the New York Botanical Garden, the Greenwich International Film Festival, Greenwich Historical Society, Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, the Preservation Society of Newport, and the PRASAD Project. She and her husband have restored more buildings than she can count, including the Ocean House Hotel and Deer Mountain Inn.
Signed copies of the book will be available at Diane’s Books.
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The Greenwich Library system consists of the Main Library and its Byram Shubert and Cos Cob branches. The mission of Greenwich Library is to provide exceptional resources, programs and services that promote the joy of lifelong learning and discovery, and to offer a welcoming place for people to gather and share experiences. With over 2,000 programs and events per year, the Library seeks to serve as the cultural and intellectual crossroads of the community. Greenwich Library has a total circulation of about 1.2 million, the highest reported in Connecticut. Greenwich Library was recently named a five-star library by Library Journal for the 11th time. Greenwich Library is located at 101 West Putnam Avenue in Greenwich. Cos Cob Library is located at 5 Sinawoy Road in Cos Cob. Byram Shubert Library is located at 21 Mead Avenue in Greenwich. More information is available online at www.greenwichlibrary.org or by calling 203-622-7900.
