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Three novelists to discuss their work at Village Square Booksellers

BELLOWS FALLS — Three New England novelists who love to weave stories with strong characters who prevail against the odds will visit Village Square Booksellers, 32 The Square, on Thursday, July 22, at 5 p.m.

Rev. Jane Willan, Eileen O'Finlan, and Eileen Charbonneau, who call themselves the Scribe Sisters, invite all to join them for a talk about their books and their writing process in what will be the bookstore's first in-person event since the pandemic and shutdown.

Willan is the author of the Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn mystery series. In Willan's cozy mysteries, the Anglican order of nuns at the Welsh Gwenafwy Abbey find a murder for every liturgical season.

Eileen O'Finlan's novels Kelegeen and Erin's Children illuminate a family saga of the Irish during the Great Hunger of the 1840s and 1850s. O'Finlan is a semifinalist in the 2020 Goethe Award for Post-1750s Historical Fiction.

Eileen Charbonneau lives in Bellows Falls and is the author of the multiple-award-winning Code Talker Chronicles and American Civil War Brides series. Charbonneau is a member of the Bellows Falls Woman's Club and Friends of the Rockingham Library.

Charbonneau says she is happy to announce the first of a young adult series set in the 1990s: The Linda Tassel Mysteries, whose inaugural adventure is Death at Little Mound, released earlier this year.

For reservations, call 802-463-9404. Masks will be required.

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