ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca received her B.A. in English
literature from the University of Maryland at College Park and speaks to
writers’ groups on the subjects of creative writing and publishing. Her
manuscript for THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD
was a semifinalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition.
A New Yorker by birth, Rebecca grew
up in the close suburbs of Washington, D.C. in an academic family. A year spent
in Germany at age eight would later provide the basis for the protagonist's
background in THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD.
Rebecca first learned about the Waldorf
School movement at age 14 and quickly developed a fascination with its culture
and philosophies. After studying elementary education for several years, she
graduated with a degree in English, awarded with honors.
Rebecca lives and works near
Washington, D.C. with her husband and their four young children.
Visit www.rebeccacoleman.net.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Semifinalist
in the
2010
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition
THE KINGDOM
OF CHILDHOOD
By Rebecca Coleman
THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD is the story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old Zach
Patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother’s
extramarital affair, and Judy McFarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her
family unravel before her eyes. Thrown together to organize a fundraiser for
their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair
that at first thrills, then corrupts, each of them. Judy sees in Zach the
elements of a young man she loved as a child, but what Zach does not realize is
that their relationship is, for Judy, only the latest in a lifetime of
disturbing secrets. As the walls close in, Zach finds himself needing to
disentangle himself from premature adulthood. But the lines between adult
and child have blurred, and life and sanity are unraveling faster and further than
anyone could ever have imagined.
Rebecca’s exploration of the
controversial Waldorf School movement will make THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD a much-discussed and debated novel.
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