Events

Wed 8/29  7pm-8pm Book launch: Barbara Claypole White reading, discussion & wine/cheese reception for The Unfinished Garden Harlequin Mira  $14.95 pb   fiction/romance  9780778314127   Barbara Claypole White will be reading from her debut novel, The Unfinished Garden.   Please join the author in a book discussion, signing and a glass of wine! Set in the forests of Orange County, NC and the woodland gardens of southern England, The Unfinished Garden is a love story about grief, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and dirt…                         Barbara Claypole White grew up in the English village of Turvey with big dreams of becoming a novelist, but after a detour through women’s and medieval history at York University, landed a job promoting London fashion. She was part of the first British Designer Show, measured celebrities in their underwear—made coffee for minor royals—and worked for the queen of the international rag trade, Dame Vivienne Westwood. One day, her boss sent her to New York to pick up a collection of clothes, and she fell in love with an American professor who followed her around JFK Airport. After six years, Barbara was pregnant and her husband was offered a distinguished professorship at UNC Chapel Hill. She returned to her lifelong dream of writing only to slam into another detour: her young son developed obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since then, a fascination with mental illness has framed her life. She also became involved in a nonfiction project for parents of children with invisible disabilities, and blogs through the highs and lows of OCD at www.easytolovebut.com. (Her son, now seventeen, is an award-winning, published poet.)     Author photo by Artie Dixon