Ebook {Epub PDF} The Island of Worthy Boys by Connie Hertzberg Mayo

The Island of Worthy Boys is a USA Best Book Awards Finalist, and a INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist. Connie Hertzberg Mayo came to Massachusetts to get a Literature degree from Tufts University and never left. She first learned about Thompson Island shortly after graduation and immediately knew it was a great setting for a work of fiction, but it took twenty years and the rise of the /5. The Island of Worthy Boys book excerpt. Prologue September • Boston Harbor. The steamboat puffed and chugged through the harbor, cleaving the gunmetal water in front and churning it white like boiling laundry in the back. The boat was at the halfway point in its ten-minute trip, with its bow pointing toward the leafy island and its stern. Connie Hertzberg Mayo came to Massachusetts to get a Literature degree from Tufts University and never left. She first learned about Thompson Island shortly after graduation and immediately knew it was a great setting for a work of fiction, but it took twenty years and the rise of The Island of Worthy Boys is a USA Best Book Awards Finalist, and a INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist/5.

The Island of Worthy Boys. By Connie Hertzberg Mayo - Published Genres: The Island of Worthy Boys, the debut novel from Connie Hertzberg Mayo, is the gritty and very affecting coming-of-age story of Aidan Sullivan Read Review. Connie Hertzberg-Mayo's debut novel The Island of Worthy Boys is such a novel. This book is full of colorful, strong characters that got under my skin and stayed there from the very beginning. The Island of Worthy Boys is a tale of two young disadvantaged boys, Charles and Aidan, who become partners in crime doing what they can to stay alive. Boston v. NY, Literary Edition with Connie Mayo #Bookgiveaway. HALLIE EPHRON: Today we're thrilled to host Connie Hertzberg Mayo, author of ISLAND OF WORTHY BOYS which is a finalist for the USA Best Book Awards (Historical Fiction category.) It's set in 19th Century Boston, and tells the story of two boys fleeing a robbery gone horribly wrong.

The Island of Worthy Boys is a USA Best Book Awards Finalist, and a INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist. Connie Hertzberg Mayo came to Massachusetts to get a Literature degree from Tufts University and never left. She first learned about Thompson Island shortly after graduation and immediately knew it was a great setting for a work of fiction, but it took twenty years and the rise of the internet to make her feel like she could start researching and writing. “An accomplished debut novel with intriguing characters and vibrant dialogue, The Island of Worthy Boys takes readers on a fascinating journey through the streets of late-nineteenth-century Boston and into the little-known world of Thompson Island’s Farm School for Indigent Boys. With sparkling descriptions and a well-paced plot, Mayo tells the tale of Charles Wheeler and Aidan Sullivan―two boys on the run―and their escape to the farm school, where secrets abound and the boys. Connie Hertzberg Mayo is the author of The Island of Worthy Boys, which won the Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her latest novel, The Sharp Edge of Mercy, will be published by Heliotrope Books in May Contact Connie.