What She Left Behind
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By Ellen Marie Wiseman
Publisher: Kensington
Release Date: December 31, 2013

Ellen Marie Wiseman is a bestselling author whose 2nd novel, What She Left Behind, was published in 2013, and remained on Amazon’s top 200 list for years. I just formed a book club with some of my neighbors, and our 1st pick for the month of August was Wiseman’s story of two young women, one from the 1920s and one from the 1990s, who become connected when modern Izzy finds the diary of Clara in an old suitcase left in a shuttered asylum. While Izzy contends with the horrors of high school, coupled with a very troubled past, she feels compelled to follow Clara’s story, who was forced into a mental institution by her father because she refused to marry a man chosen for her. After all, she was already in love.