All is not what it seems, and everything is about to change.īooklist calls It All Comes Down to This “A tightly coiled family saga,” saying, “Fowler expertly peels back the layers of each character in this page-turner, making for a highly entertaining summer read.” Reynolds, an enigmatic southerner ex con with his own hidden past who complicates the situation.

Her will directs that the family’s summer cottage on Mount Desert Island, Maine, must be sold, the proceeds split equally between the three girls.

The author conversation will also be live-streamed on the Conroy Center Facebook page, In Fowler’s latest novel, we meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic, widowed mother, Marti, will be dying soon. Call Beaufort Bookstore to reserve your seat: 84. Books will be available for sale and signing. This free event will be held on Tuesday, August 30, at 5:00 p.m., at the Beaufort Bookstore, 2127 Boundary St., Ste 15. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules-and how to break them.The Beaufort Bookstore, in partnership with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, will host an evening with New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Therese Anne Fowler, author of It All Comes Down to This, in conversation with Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt. Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman.

With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, in But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, written byĪlva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts.

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