LITERATURE + LECTURES

Blue Willow Bookshop presents Jane Porter, Monday, October 18 at 10:30am. Join us for a fun Mom’s Morning Out with author Jane Porter. Jane’s in town to talk about her newest novel, She’s Gone Country, which is set in Texas. There will be cookies and milk and a cowboy craft for kids, as well as an author chat for Moms.

Shey Darcy a 39-year-old former top model for Vogue and Sports Illustrated, and the protagonist of Jane Porter's She's Gone Country, led a charmed life in New York City with a handsome photographer husband until the day he announced he'd fallen in love with someone else. Left to pick up the pieces of her once happy world, Shey decides to move back home to Texas with her three teenage sons. Life on the family ranch, however, brings with it a whole new host of dramas starting with differences of opinion with her staunch Southern Baptist mother, her rugged but overprotective brothers, and daily battles with her three sons who are also struggling to find themselves.

Add to the mix Shey's ex-crush, Dane Kelly, a national bullriding champ and she's got her hands full. It doesn't take long before Shey realizes that in order to reinvent herself, she must let go of an uncertain future and a broken past, to find happiness--and maybe love--in the present.

About the author: A UCLA grad with an MA in Writing, Jane Porter is one of those self-described original book geeks, the girl with the coke bottle glasses that sat with a novel next to the classroom door rather than play during recess. She wrote her first story in first grade, her first picture book in second grade and her first novel in 4th, and she's just continued to write from there—bad poetry, passionate essays, romance rich novels and poignant, bittersweet contemporary fiction.