Get to know Jane Delury

Jane Delury won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her first novel, The Balcony. Her short stories have appeared in Granta, The Yale Reviews, and The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. A professor of creative writing at the University of Baltimore, she lives in Maryland with her family.

Hometown

Sacramento, CA

Fun fact

I have Irish citizenship

Favorite author

Virginia Woolf

Favorite place in the world

Brittany, France

Favorite place to read

in bed propped up by five pillows

Books by Jane Delury

Hedge

A summer away. One troubled marriage. Two daughters. And the love interest that threatens to ruin it all.

Maud is a talented garden historian and devoted mother to daughters Ella and Louise. Motivated to reinvigorate her career and escape her troubled marriage, she accepts a summer job restoring the garden of a lush, 19th-century Hudson Valley estate.

While waiting for her daughters to join her at the end of their school year, Maud meets coworker, archeologist Gabriel Crews, whose passion for landscape history matches her own. When their immediate and intense friendship ignites, it sets in motion a seismic shock that will profoundly change Maud's life, as well as the lives of everyone she cares about. Hedge is a deeply moving portrait of a woman’s longing to be a good mother while still answering the call of her soul and mind.

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Jane's Book Tour

Jane Delury’s Hedge launches June 6th, 2023! We can’t wait to celebrate at Montgomery Place, the setting of the beautiful book. Join us to learn more about Jane’s inspiration behind Hedge and the history of the campus.

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