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Author Visit: Janis Daly
For readers of historical fiction, fans of local history, book clubs, and anyone who loves a great story.
Author Janis Daly will return to Marple Library to discuss her new book, The Path Beneath Her Feet. Steeped in rich historical detail, the emotionally charged sequel to her 2022 novel, The Unlocked Path, finds Dr. Eliza Edwards intensifying her commitment to effect social change through sacrifice, longing, and heartbreak. Will her unyielding pursuit to limit suffering and save lives sustain her amid the tumultuous landscapes of 1930s and 1940s America?
Inspired by the discovery that an ancestor founded the Woman’s Medical College of PA in 1850, Daly wrote her first novel, The Unlocked Path, which celebrates pioneering women doctors at the turn of the 20th Century. Its sequel, The Path Beneath Her Feet, honors the work of the American Women’s Hospitals in rural America during the 1930s. The Unlocked Path was named a #1 New Release for US History on Amazon in August 2022, received an Honorable Mention for General Fiction from the 2023 New England Book Festival Awards, and was named a finalist for the 2023 Goethe Awards of Late Historical Fiction from the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
"In this sequel to The Unlocked Path, Daly packs her melodramatic with historical details of the period, including the impending war, the Depression-era poverty, and racial bigotry. A historically compelling, engaging ode to a cadre of formidable women.” – Kirkus Reviews
Copies of the book will be available to purchase and have signed. Please register below. Walk-ins welcome as well.