the end of temperance dare by wendy webb

She’s burned out and wants a less stressful life, but finds anything but. Norrie, the new director of Cliffside, is coming off of years on the crime beat at the local newspaper. She hires Eleanor and sets in motion the events of the story.Įleanor (Norrie): Sandra Bullock or Amy Adams Miss Penny is the departing director of Cliffside Manor, daughter of Chester Dare, the philanthropist who build Cliffside as a tuberculosis sanatorium back in the day and turned it into a retreat for artists and writers when TB was cured. So here goes, for the main characters from The End of Temperance Dare.

I imagine how my characters look when I’m writing my books, sometimes imagining real life actors. Here Webb dreamcasts an adaptation of her new novel, The End of Temperance Dare: Oh, this is fun. Webb lives in Minneapolis with her family.Wendy Webb's novels include The Vanishing, The Fate of Mercy Alban, and The Tale of Halcyon Crane. The Haunting of Brynn Wilder also hit Number One on the Amazon bestseller list. Daughters of the Lake, hit Number One on the Amazon bestseller list and was published in 2018. The End of Temperance Dare, won the Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction in 2017 and has been optioned for film and television. The book was on the Indie Bestseller List for six weeks. Her second novel, The Fate of Mercy Alban, depicts the uncovering of a hidden family scandal. Webb's first novel, The Tale of Halcyon Crane, is a modern ghost story that won the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011. She was the editor-in-chief of a lifestyle monthly, Duluth Superior Magazine, until the publication closed in 2014. A career journalist, Webb has also written for the Huffington Post and USA Today The Economist and countless other publications. Writing career Īfter returning to Minnesota, Webb got her first writing job with a Minneapolis-based weekly arts and entertainment newsletter, City Pages.

with a congressman, and later with a Minnesota senator. Upon returning to the United States, she got an internship in Washington, D.C. Immediately after graduation, she lived in France with two of her friends. She attended the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with a major in political science and minors in French and history. After reading that book, she knew from that point on that she was destined to be an author. When Webb was in grade school, the school librarian encouraged her to read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Her books have received several awards, including the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 20.

The end of temperance dare by wendy webb