Author Event with NYT Bestselling Author Laura Moriarty

Join us in welcoming New York Times Bestselling author Laura Moriarty to Doylestown, PA, as she discusses and signs her new book, , at The Doylestown Bookshop on Thursday, August 6th, 2026, at 6:30 pm. The event will include a presentation by the author, followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing.

This is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes admission for one person and a hardcover copy of Sunlight Finds You.

DATE: Thursday, August 6th, 2026, at 6:30 pm

LOCATION: The Doylestown Bookshop, 16 S. Main Street, Doylestown, PA 18901

THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT - HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Doors open at 5:30 pm, and the event will start at 6:30 pm.
• Each ticket admits one person and includes one hardcover copy of Sunlight Finds You. No substitutions.
• Books will be available for pick-up at the event.
• The author will sign and personalize books with your first name only, with no messages. He will not be able to sign any posters, bookmarks, scraps of paper, etc...
• You may bring TWO books from home to be signed by the author in addition to anything purchased in the store during the event.
• An adult must accompany children under 16.
• If you cannot attend the event, we will hold your books at the front counter of The Doylestown Bookshop for pick-up. We will do our best to have them signed, but that is not guaranteed. We can hold books for up to two weeks. Any books that have not been picked up or arranged to be shipped by the two-week mark will be donated. Please give us 24 hours post-event to prepare your books for pick-up.
• Event tickets are non-refundable.

About the book:

A forbidden love blows open the world of a teenage girl, altering the trajectory of her life–from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone
It’s 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers seeking sunshine and opportunity. For seventeen-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets and wins over Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days and evenings together, and in her adoring, encouraging company, he grows more confident, even as he remains tender and caring. Leonard's sophisticated mother welcomes Nora into their lives, but his father distrusts her motives.
When his suspicions are seemingly confirmed, Nora is forced to cut contact. In her longing and fear, she takes a chance that changes her life, exiling her from the family she loves and setting off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her into adulthood. It is a mature Nora who tells the story of her turbulent past. Wiser and more worldly, she commits to an honest but compassionate account, and to a future based on trusting, first and foremost, herself.
Sunlight Finds You is, ultimately, a love story set in the past that has much to say about our present. Richly layered and propulsive, it’s a book about extending forgiveness—for ourselves, and for others—and about refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.

About the author:

Laura Moriarty is the author of five other novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone which was made into a feature film by the creators of Downton Abbey. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas, and is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kansas.

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