Fiona Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Dollhouse, The Address, The Masterpiece, The Chelsea Girls, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, and The Magnolia Palace. She lives in New York City and is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School.

FANTASTIC HARDCOVER PUBLICATION: The Lions HC was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick for August and hit the New York Times hardcover fiction list.GREAT PAPERBACK PERFORMANCE: Fiona's paperbacks have been very high-performing, such as The Address TR (2018) which sold almost 5,000 copies in the last year.LIBRARY DARLING: Librarians love Fiona, and she is in the LibraryReads Hall of Fame with the The Lions of Fifth Avenue being her fifth consecutive LibraryReads pick. As expected given the library-centric plot of Lions, we received great support from the library community including from the NYPL itself, which included Fiona in its Young Lions event programming.CONNECTED AND DEDICATED AUTHOR: Fiona is a tireless promoter of her own work, hand-delivering galleys to indies, speaking at countless book clubs and library events, writing articles and completing Q&As online, and utilizing her connections.CAPTIVATING, WELL-RESEARCHED PLOT: Lions has fantastic publicity hooks: it's a book about books, which we know readers love, it's rich with historical detail about the NYPL, and, while all of Fiona's books feature strong female leads, this one has a particularly feminist bent with its focus on Greenwich Village's Heterodoxy Club (a historical feminist debating group).

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times bestseller!
 
A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth. Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife 

In New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces.

It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she is drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. And when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process.

Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-averse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history.