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    "title": "The story she left behind",
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    "description": "In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington\u2019s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, vanishes off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her disappearance leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beloved mother.\n\nBy 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother\u2019s lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother\u2019s disappearance, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London\u2019s most deadly natural disasters\u2014the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson\u2019s family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind.\n",
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