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For Immediate Release Contact: Leah Ammon, (408) 961-5814

October 4, 2012 lammon@montalvoarts.org

Those We Love Most: Lee Woodruff’s First Foray into Fiction

Best-selling writer to present reading and book signing November 2

“Lee Woodruff has written a beautiful, humorous, poignant page-turner about the complexities

of love and marriage, tricky family dynamics and the power of the human heart. Everything you

want in a great read is here, including wonderful storytelling that builds to a satisfying ending.

Loved it.” — Adriana Trigiani 

SARATOGA, Calif. – On Friday,

November 2, 7:30pm best-selling

writer and media personality Lee

Woodruff will give a reading from her

first novel, Those We Love Most .

Afterwards, she will sign book copies,

which will be available for purchase

that evening. Tickets are $15 ($10 for

Montalvo members), and are available

on montalvoarts.org and the Montalvo Box Office, M-F, 10am-4pm, at 408-961-5814.

A Career Focused on the Factual

 

Lee Woodruff’s career has, up to this point, focused on non-fiction: namely, writing and reporting.

She and her husband CBS News correspondent Bob Woodruff co-authored the New York Times 

best-seller , In an Instant . She is also the author of an award-winning essay collection, Perfectly 

Imperfect . A contributing editor for CBS’s This Morning, she reports on a variety of family- and

parenting-related issues, which have also been the subject matter of her many articles published

in Parade, Health, and Redbook . Along with her husband, she is founder of the Bob Woodruff 

Foundation to assist wounded service members and their families.

Click above to hear Lee Woodfuff discuss her novel.

 

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“A bright June day. A split-second distraction. A family forever changed.”

Those We Love Most draws on Woodruff’s personal experiences to

explore the way a tightly-knit family copes with a terrible tragedy.

One summer morning, Maura Corrigan awakens happy and secure,

with a loving husband and three healthy, vivacious children. By the

end of the day, her entire world will be shattered and everything

that she thinks she knows will have changed when her small son is

killed in a car accident. The fractures and fissures in both Maura’s

life and her marriage are suddenly thrown into high relief, which is

apparent to not only her and her husband, but also to her parents,

who are grappling with hidden strains of their own.

Told through the alternating perspectives of four people over the course of a year, the book

examines the ways in which the unthinkable forces the characters to confront their choices,

examine their mistakes, fight for their most valuable relationships, and ultimately find their way

back to each other.

THOSE WE LOVE MOST : LEE WOODRUFF READING AND BOOK SIGNING

What: Reading and book signing by author Lee Woodruff 

When: Friday, November 2, 2012 at 7:30pm 

Where: Carriage House Theatre at Montalvo Arts Center

Admission: $15/$10 Montalvo members. Tickets available at montalvoarts.org, and the Montalvo

Box Office at 408-961-5858, M-F, 10am-4pm. 

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Now celebrating its centennial year, Montalvo Arts Center is an oasis of culture and

nature whose mission is to create and present arts of all types, nurture artists, and

use our historic Villa, buildings, and grounds in innovative ways that engage people in

the creative process. Located in Silicon Valley's Saratoga hills, Montalvo occupies a

Mediterranean-style Villa, built in 1912 by Senator James Duval Phelan, surrounded

by 175 stunning acres, including the campus of our international Lucas Artists

Residency Program. Senator Phelan bequeathed the villa and grounds to the people

of California for the encouragement of art, music, literature and architecture, a

mandate that Montalvo has carried forward ever since its founding. For more

information, call (408) 961-5800 or visit www.montalvoarts.org.