We are thrilled to feature Anne Leigh Parrish, author of What is Found, What is Lost for this week’s edition of Inspired By.  

Here, Anne Leigh Parrish shares the 5 books that have inspired her as a writer.

The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner

The Sound and The Fury explores intense and passionate family bonds and relationships where there is hardly any love and only self-centeredness.

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolff

Virgina Wolf explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life.  Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party of which she is to be hostess.

Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

When Irene America discovers that her husband, Gil has been reading her diary, she beins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed secretly in her safe box.  She keeps record of the honest truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary- hidden where her husband can find it – into a manipulative charade.

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed.  With memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, she imagines writing a history of the world.

 Lila by Marilyn Robinson

Lila is homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside. To keep shelter from the rain, she arrives inside a small-town Iowa church, igniting a romance and a debate that will reshape her life.  She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security.

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