Best-Selling Novelist Headlines Avon Library Program

Avon Free Public Library

AVON/FARMINGTON, CT — Tickets are on sale for a special lunchtime event Friday featuring a well-known literary figure headlining an Avon Free Public Library fundraiser in Farmington.

The Friends of the Avon Free Public Library will sponsor its 12th "Author Luncheon," which this year features popular author Kristin Harmel.

It will take place Friday, April 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Farmington Polo Club, located at 162 Town Farm Road, Farmington.

Tickets for this event are $50 per person (price includes lunch, author talk, and book signing. Books will be available for purchase).

Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of "The Forest of Vanishing Stars," "The Book of Lost Names," "The Winemaker’s Wife," and a dozen other novels.

Her most recent novel, "The Paris Daughter," was an immediate bestseller.

She was born just outside Boston, Mass., and spent her childhood there, as well as in Worthington, Ohio, and St. Petersburg, Fla.

After graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Florida, she spent time living in Paris and Los Angeles. She now lives in Orlando, with her husband and young son.

The completed form, along with a check for the ticket price, can be returned to the Avon Free Public Library, 281 Country Club Road, Avon.

To purchase tickets ($50 per person) and to pay online or for more information, click here. To download an author luncheon reservation form, click here.