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The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

A Novel

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"The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is wise, witty, and utterly compelling." —Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Friends We Keep

Evvie Drake Starts Over meets The Friday Night Knitting Club in this wise and witty novel about a fired advice columnist who discovers lost and found family members in Charleston, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Second Sister.

Celia Fairchild, known as advice columnist 'Dear Calpurnia', has insight into everybody's problems – except her own. Still bruised by the end of a marriage she thought was her last chance to create a family, Celia receives an unexpected answer to a "Dear Birthmother" letter. Celia throws herself into proving she's a perfect adoptive mother material – with a stable home and income – only to lose her job. Her one option: sell the Charleston house left to her by her recently departed, estranged Aunt Calpurnia.

Arriving in Charleston, Celia learns that Calpurnia had become a hoarder, the house is a wreck, and selling it will require a drastic, rapid makeover. The task of renovation seems overwhelming and risky. But with the help of new neighbors, old friends, and an unlikely sisterhood of strong, creative women who need her as much as she needs them, Celia knits together the truth about her estranged family — and about herself.

The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is an unforgettable novel of secrets revealed, laughter released, creativity rediscovered, and waves of wisdom by a writer Robyn Carr calls "my go-to author for feel-good novels."

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      March 15, 2021
      It's not just a house that needs restoring in best-seller Bostwick's latest (after Hope on the Inside, 2019). Celia Fairchild usually has all of the answers. It's been part of her job for the past few years as the author behind the advice column Dear Calpurnia, a sort of millennial Dear Abby. When Celia gets booted from her column, she's at a loss. Her dream of being a mother is within reach when an adoption agency calls, but she has no job and pretty much no home. The latter issue is solved when she inherits her family home, but it brings up memories she thought she had put to bed. Also . . . the house needs work. As Celia enlists the help of her neighbors and newly found friends to get the house baby-ready, she discovers that some questions will never have answers, and the hardest advice to take can be your own. The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is a delightful contemporary novel with a compelling found family at its heart.

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