In addition to a long magazine writing career (which also included articles published in Travel + Leisure, Glamour, Ladies’ Home Journal, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and more), Kristin was also a frequent contributor to the national television morning show The Daily Buzz-where her assignments included flying to London three times to interview the cast of the Harry Potter films. One of those features-the story of Holocaust-survivor-turned-philanthropist Henri Landwirth (whom both Walter Cronkite and John Glenn told Kristin was the most amazing person they’d ever known)-partially inspired Kristin’s 2012 novel, The Sweetness of Forgetting, which was a bestseller all over the world. Her favorite stories at PEOPLE, however, were the “Heroes Among Us” features-tales of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

After stints covering health and lifestyle for American Baby, Men’s Health, and Woman’s Day, she became a reporter for PEOPLE and spent more than a decade working for the publication, covering everything from the Super Bowl to high-profile murders to celebrity interviews with the likes of Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, OutKast, Justin Timberlake, and Patrick Dempsey. The Sweetness of Forgetting is a story of family, love, honesty and baked goods.Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling and #1 international bestselling author of THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES, THE WINEMAKER'S WIFE, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into numerous languages and sold all over the world.Ī former reporter for PEOPLE magazine, Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s.

Giving Hope nothing but a list of names, Rose sends her on a journey of discovery that takes Hope to a synagogue and a mosque in Paris, to a history buried in the Holocaust, and to a long lost love with secrets of his own. What if she hadn t abandoned her dreams of law school? What if she hadn’t quit her job to raise her daughter? What if she hadn t caught her husband cheating on her with a clich d blonde bimbo? When her aging grandmother, Rose, summons her to hear a long held secret, Hope finally has the opportunity to stop thinking what if? and start thinking what now? Rose’s memory is ebbing rapidly due to the onset of Alzheimer s, and she knows she doesn t have much time left to tell Hope the truth about a secret she s kept for seventy years. From the author of Italian for Beginners, a lush, heartwarming novel about a woman who travels to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother and discovers more than she ever imagined Hope McKenna Smith, divorced mother of a surly not quite teenage girl, runs her family bakery on Cape Cod, but is starting to wonder what might have been.

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