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Rebecca D'Harlingue has done graduate work in Spanish literature, worked as a hospital administrator, and taught English as a Second Language to adults from all over the world. She shares her love of story both with preschoolers at a Head Start program and with the members of the book club she has belonged to for decades. D'Harlingue lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, Arthur, where they are fortunate to frequently spend time with their children and grandchildren.
2020 International Book Awards Finalist in Best New Fiction An ambitious, engaging novel that explores the power of finding personal connection to the past. -Kirkus Reviews Author Rebecca D'Harlingue has crafted a truly beautiful work of epistolary fiction that takes us directly to the pens and minds of her characters. . . . Delving into Hispanic culture and history, this is clearly an incredibly well-researched novel with much to offer in its enthralling plotline, but also in an opportunity to expand our minds beyond typical family dramas. . . . What results is a highly personal, intelligent and emotive story that brings you closer to these women than you may think possible, ensuring that their tragedies and triumphs stay in your heart forever. -Readers' Favorite The Lines Between Us is a heartfelt and intelligent novel about love, family, and the ties that bind us to generations past. -Michael David Lukas, author of The Last Watchman of Old Cairo Rebecca D'Harlingue weaves a complex and fascinating tale, ranging from 17th-century elite Madrid, to a Mexican convent, to modern Missouri-a tale of honor and deception, of hidden pain and, eventually, forgiveness. -Martha Hoffman, author of Raised to Rule: Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634 In The Lines Between Us, D'Harlingue has created a captivating debut novel filled with unique characters, exquisite details, and intriguing family secrets. A diary and letters furtively passed down three hundred years from grandmother to granddaughter transport readers back in time and move them forward as the mysteries are elegantly revealed. This book is about women's honor, overcoming heartache, and bravery. -Jill G. Hall, author of The Black Velvet Coat In her meticulously researched epistolary novel The Lines Between Us, Rebecca D'Harlingue weaves a tale of familial love, brutality, and sacrifice during the seventeenth-century Spanish Inquisition. D'Harlingue's elegantly crafted, intriguing story spans the Old and New Worlds, exploring the oppression and power of generations of women bound together by a dark family secret-and their modern-day descendant's quest to uncover the truth about her ancestry. -Kristen Harnisch, international best-selling author of The Vintner's Daughter and The California Wife Well-written and engaging, the tale rings true and affirms women's strength, desire to be heard, and fierce love of family. -Linda Stewart Henley, author of Estelle
