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Emily Saxe Nydam

Biography

Emily Saxe Nydam

Emily Nydam is a musician and author whose career began as a lawyer. She graduated from Yale University, where she was awarded the Yale Schoenberg Prize for writing and went on to earn her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, serving as Managing Editor of The Georgetown Law Journal. An accomplished singer, Emily has released solo albums and performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Sydney Opera House. She and her husband have lived across the United States and abroad, including in Thailand, where their twin sons were born. JOURNEYING HOME is her debut multi-generational historical novel set against the backdrop of World War I.

Emily Saxe Nydam

Books by Emily Saxe Nydam

Journeying Home
by Emily Saxe Nydam - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Romance

In rural Virginia, Lizzy is determined to escape poverty and abuse. Resourceful and resilient, she becomes a nurse and travels to a field hospital in France during World War I. Though fiercely independent, Lizzy is also a romantic at heart. When she meets a charismatic American soldier, their relationship challenges everything she believes about love, duty and the life she has worked so hard to create for herself. In the present day, Gwen is navigating a difficult divorce and searching for a way forward. Drawn by a keepsake box left to her by her great-aunt Lizzy, she travels to Richmond, where she discovers Lizzy’s old rowhouse and begins to uncover long-buried family secrets. As Gwen pieces together Lizzy’s past, she finds herself rebuilding her own life in unexpected ways.