Mr. Winterbourne
Need a new author to put on your radar? I can enthusiastically recommend Clara van Houten. Recently I read her debut Everything He Never Told Me and was so impressed with the quality of her writing and beautiful prose, which drew me in immediately. I’m happy to say her second book Mr. Winterbourne is every bit as good, and I think even better! Debra Cowdrey is an aspiring author whose work, despite its quality, has been continually passed over by publishers. At a dinner one evening, she overhears a male author astonished at his luck to have something he wrote in only four months get an offer from a publisher. Seeing what she’s up against, Debra’s best friend Sheila suggests this: “I see a possibility here. A clear one, but you have to listen with an open mind. You’ve spent years trying in a skirt. I’m only saying, try once in trousers.” And thus ‘Alec Winterbourne’ is born. It’s just a pen name, but it does the trick and soon Debra’s work is published. If the story ended here, yo...
