Cocktails & Conversation with author Hayley Gelfuso

Name: Cocktails & Conversation with author Hayley Gelfuso
Start: 2025-10-07T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Waterford Stillhouse

Schedule

Tue, 07 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Waterford Stillhouse | Waterford, WI

Join us at the Waterford Stillhouse on Tuesday, October 7 for our next event in our very popular Cocktails and Conversation series! We are excited to be welcoming author Hayley Gelfuso to discuss her new novel, The Book of Lost Hours! During our Cocktails & Conversation events, guest authors share about their books, answer questions and sign their books for attendees.

About the Book:
For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history.

Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son—but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn’t, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American spy named Ernest Duquesne in 1949 offers her a glimpse of the world she left behind, setting her on a course to change history and possibly the time space itself.

In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia Duquesne is mourning the disappearance of her uncle Ernest when an enigmatic CIA agent approaches her to enlist her help in tracking down a book of memories her uncle had once sought. But when Amelia visits the time space for the first time, she realizes that the past—and the truth—might not be as linear as she’d like to believe. The Book of Lost Hours explores time, memory, and what we sacrifice to protect those we love.
Tickets are $38 each and INCLUDE A HARDCOVER COPY of The Book of Lost Hours. The books will be ready to pick up beginning on Tues, August 26. LIMITED TO 32 TICKETS. MUST PRE-PAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT. We ask that you thank our hosts by ordering a beverage during the event. THESE EVENTS DO SELL OUT QUICKLY.