Today I'd like to welcome Irina Shapiro, who is offering a tantalising insight into her novel 'Precious Bones'. It's certainly made me curious to find out more!
What would you do if confronted with
something inexplicable, something that challenges your life-long beliefs and
has the power to alter your life? Would
you just dismiss it? Would you try to
rationalize it to yourself and find a conclusion that fits in with your
beliefs? Or would you start digging for
the truth and not stop until you found the answers, no matter the cost? These are some of the questions that prompted
me to write “Precious Bones”. Of course,
my heroine doesn’t dismiss or rationalize, since there would be no book if she
did. She follows her instincts, despite
her better judgment, and the journey that follows completely alters her life.
Blurb
When the skeletal remains of a young woman and her baby are found
entombed behind the kitchen wall of a historic Tudor house Cassandra is
overcome with grief. She seems to know who the young woman was, but not how she
knows or how she came to be there. Cassandra becomes inexplicably drawn to the
house and the mystery of the "Bones of Blackfriars." As she begins to
learn the truth about the Thorne siblings who occupied the house during the
reign of Elizabeth I, her own life takes an unexpected turn and she finds that
her fate is linked to the Thornes in ways she never dreamed of.
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About the Author
Irina Shapiro was born in Moscow, Russia
and for the next eleven years lived the life of an ordinary Soviet child, in
then communist Russia, until her family’s emigration to the United States in
1982. Due to her love of reading Irina
was able to pick up English very quickly and was an honor student throughout
her school career.
After graduating from Bernard M. Baruch
College in 1992 with a Bachelor’s degree in International Business Irina worked
in advertising for two years before realizing that long hours and low wages
were not the life for her. She shifted
her focus to Import/Export and worked her way up to the position of Import
Manager in a large textile house before leaving the work force in 2007 to focus
on her autistic son.
It wasn’t until Irina had been at home for
some time that she began to write.
Eventually the characters began to take on a life of their own and have
conversations in her head and once she started writing her musings down the
stories came easily enough. Irina
incorporated her love of history and travel into her writing to create a rich
and detailed background for the characters.
Since then Irina has written five novels. She is currently working on a sequel to “The
Hands of Time.”
Irina Shapiro lives in New Jersey with her
husband and two children.
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