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""'Blue Mountain Rose' is a love letter to theatre and a valentine to the perfect summer Shakespeare festival we all wish we lived next to or worked at year-round. A fantastic escape!"" --Austin Tichenor, Co-Artistic Director, Reduced Shakespeare Company and Creator, The Shakespeareance ""[A]s with any novel, the plot's the thing, and there's plenty of the standard elements--romance, secrets, intrigue--to carry readers to a satisfying conclusion. With Shakespeare's uncanny resonance even today, ""Blue Mountain Rose"" should become a book club favorite."" --Blue Ink Review ""A touching novel about Shakespeare, love, loss, and family... made for theater lovers."" --Hannah Johnson, Quarto ""Artistic... engaging... deft... with meticulous details and singular settings... Blue Mountain Rose captures the enduring and transformational power of Shakespeare's works."" --Meg Nola, Foreword Clarion Reviews

""'Blue Mountain Rose' is a love letter to theatre and a valentine to the perfect summer Shakespeare festival we all wish we lived next to or worked at year-round. A fantastic escape!"" --Austin Tichenor, Co-Artistic Director, Reduced Shakespeare Company and Creator, The Shakespeareance ""[A]s with any novel, the plot's the thing, and there's plenty of the standard elements--romance, secrets, intrigue--to carry readers to a satisfying conclusion. With Shakespeare's uncanny resonance even today, ""Blue Mountain Rose"" should become a book club favorite."" --Blue Ink Review ""A touching novel about Shakespeare, love, loss, and family... made for theater lovers."" --Hannah Johnson, Quarto ""Artistic... engaging... deft... with meticulous details and singular settings... Blue Mountain Rose captures the enduring and transformational power of Shakespeare's works."" --Meg Nola, Foreword Clarion Reviews ""In this clever novel, characters staging a Hamlet production find that their lives coincidentally mirror many of the play's themes."" --BlueInk Reviews

""'Blue Mountain Rose' is a love letter to theatre and a valentine to the perfect summer Shakespeare festival we all wish we lived next to or worked at year-round. A fantastic escape!"" --Austin Tichenor, Co-Artistic Director, Reduced Shakespeare Company and Creator, The Shakespeareance ""[A]s with any novel, the plot's the thing, and there's plenty of the standard elements--romance, secrets, intrigue--to carry readers to a satisfying conclusion. With Shakespeare's uncanny resonance even today, ""Blue Mountain Rose"" should become a book club favorite."" --Blue Ink Review ""A touching novel about Shakespeare, love, loss, and family... made for theater lovers."" --Hannah Johnson, Quarto ""Artistic... engaging... deft... with meticulous details and singular settings... Blue Mountain Rose captures the enduring and transformational power of Shakespeare's works."" --Meg Nola, Foreword Clarion Reviews ""In this clever novel, characters staging a Hamlet production find that their lives coincidentally mirror many of the play's themes."" --BlueInk Reviews ""Even readers not well versed in Hamlet will find enough background information about the play to stay in the loop. ... With Shakespeare's continued resonance, this should become a book club favorite with plentiful fodder for discussion."" --BlueInk Review

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Julie Hammonds fell in love with Hamlet during a high school trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and has nurtured her passion for Shakespeare ever since. She studied the plays in school, stage-managed The Winter's Tale and Much Ado About Nothing, and helped create the Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival. Her quest to complete the canon as an audience member has taken her from a community hall in Juneau, Alaska, to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. She has four plays to go. This is her first novel.

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