Susan Donovan Bernhard: WESTERLY
A Maine Irish Author Event
Sunday, September 27th, 2026
3:00pm
Join us on Sunday, September 27th for a lovely afternoon of conversation with bestselling author Susan Donovan Bernhard!
Susan will discuss her novel WESTERLY in conversation with Louise Miller, of A CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING and THE LATE BLOOMER’S CLUB.
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event, courtesy of Perkins Cove Bookshop.
About WESTERLY:
In an unforgettable saga of survival, motherhood, sisterhood, and the secrets that haunt us, one desperate decision creates a fault line that spans decades and threatens to break a family wide open.
In 1946, two German sisters, child refugees in a program dubbed Operation Shamrock, arrive in West Cork, Ireland to live in foster care while Europe recovers from war. Nearly fifty years later, on a fateful day in a bustling Maine farmhouse, an Irish newspaper clipping threatens to unravel Faye Sullivan’s carefully constructed life with husband William and daughters Maeve and Molly, a life already on the brink of collapse.
From Germany to Ireland to coastal Maine, this tender family saga explores identity, reconciliation, and the true meaning of home.
To purchase in advance, please visit Perkins Cove Bookshop in Ogunquit or head to https://www.susanbernhard.com/westerly
About Susan Donovan Bernhard:
Susan Donovan Bernhard is the bestselling author of the novels Westerly and Winter Loon, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient, a GrubStreet Novel Incubator program graduate, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and graduated from the University of Maryland. When she’s not traveling, she lives and writes in Massachusetts. Learn more at https://www.susandonovanbernhard.com/
About Louise Miller:
Louise Miller is the author of THE CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING and THE LATE BLOOMERS’ CLUB. In addition to being a novelist, she is a professional pastry chef, an art school dropout, a certified field naturalist, an old-time banjo player, an obsessive moviegoer, a meditation enthusiast and an amateur flower gardener. Louise lives in Boston, MA, where she lives with her partner and an assortment of cats. Learn more at http://www.louisemiller.net
