No Names To Be Given with Julia Brewer Daily, Ep51

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This week's featured story is a Pandora's box of secrets. We are talking to author Julia Brewer Daily about how secrets reverberate through her character's stories. Her debut novel - No Names to be Given - begins in a maternity hospital in New Orleans in the late 1960’s where three young women relinquish their babies for adoption on the same day. It’s a fiction based on truth - the maternity hospital really existed and Julia herself was born there! We begin by talking about how in her fiction she uses DNA testing to reveal long hidden truths and end with what Julia calls 'the sweetest third'. You will also hear a couple minutes from the audiobook's Prologue. It's the day the three young women at the heart of the story - Sandy, Becca, and Faith - all deliver their babies. The narrator, Reagan Boggs, is also a singer/songwriter in the Nashville area. She really brings her lyricism to this story. I want to thank The Kathy L. Murphy for introducing me to Julia when she chose No Names to be Given as one of her Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club’s ‘Book of the Month’. Also a special thank you to Julia’s publisher Lara Bernhardt at Admission Press. Julia’s sophomore book called The 5th Daughter of Thorn Ranch will be out this August. You can find the trailer for Julia's new podcast Author’s Over 50 on her website. If you’d like to hear the rest of No Names to be Given’s audiobook narrated by Reagan Boggs, please use our affiliate link to Libro.fm When you purchase your audiobooks through the Desideratum Podcast Libro.fm partner link you support the podcast, and you can pick a local bookstore to support as well.

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