Readers young and old have embraced Barbara Cooney’s Miss Rumphius, about the lupine lady who made the world more beautiful, since its publication four decades ago. ~ Harry & Hilda: Letters Home is the story of the “real” Miss Rumphius, a headstrong English teenager who leaves home to live with her stern and brilliant uncle in America.
Set primarily in Bristol, England, South Bristol, Maine, and Northampton, Massachusetts, on the campus of Smith College, the book chronicles more than a century of life on both sides of the Atlantic – from two world wars and Hemingway’s Paris to the start of
the space age.
Based on the wealth of written words they left behind, Harry & Hilda: Letters Home brings to light the remarkable lives and times of two unforgettable immigrant Americans.
Available online or in Maine Bookstores
Just finished “Harry and Hilda”. What a delightful read! The effort you put into that book was phenomenal, and you should be elated with the result.
Mary Jean Roach
I have completed your marvelous book! It amazed me. You are such a strong writer. Your telling of the story was so engaging. I could not put it down. What an accomplishment!!
Finally, I valued how you corrected the posit that Hilda started the Lupines to make the world a better place. You knew she did it to please the contours of her own soul.
This is a masterpiece!
Donna J. Burtch
Halfway through our copy of “Harry & Hilda”. Well done!
Deb Carter
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