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Ellen Baker | A Tragic Love Story Kept Hidden for Decades
Author Guest / February 20, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE HIDDEN LIFE OF CECILY LARSON 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? THE HIDDEN LIFE OF CECILY LARSON tells the story of Cecily, a small town doctor’s wife who, in 2015, finds out through an at-home DNA test that the baby she gave birth to in 1936 at age fifteen – a baby she’d been told had died at birth – is still alive, bringing to light a tragic love story she’d kept hidden for decades and throwing into question everything about the family she’d raised and claimed as “her own” for nearly 70 years. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I started with the question of whether it would be possible to keep a significant secret over the course of a long lifetime in a small town, and I knew right away that I wanted my small town to be in northern Minnesota, where I was born and which still feels to me like home. Other parts of the book take place on the coast of North Carolina, both because I’ve loved visiting there and because I wanted to weave some historical events…