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Jennifer Butler sent her daughter Georgina more than 1000 postcards during the years that she and her husband James traveled 268,162 miles in an attempt to "wrest James from his alcoholism." In this interactive conversation, the author will discuss how she crafted the query letter to her dream designer, the work that went into her book James, Jennifer, Georgina,and her advice for writers.

Read more about Jennifer Butler's book online, then discover Irma Boom, the legendary bookmaker who crafted James, Jennifer, Georgina in an article published in The New York Times.

About Jennifer Butler

Jennifer always casts herself as the Outsider, observing situations: an American who married into British aristocracy, an American who moved to Paris, a mother looking at motherhood from the outside even as she pulled herself through the ‘gruntwork’ of each difficult day. This book weighs up 21 years of Jennifer James and Georgina’s lives. And it delves into all the things that make a family – hurtful and happy – it’s a classy, witty reality TV show, a travelogue, a blog a decade before blogs were envisioned, a mother’s mediation on what she wishes her child to know about Life, all with a 1st class Air Mail stamp licked and stuck on to glue these three characters together.

~Lizzie Harwood