Nora Oakley

Divorced from her husband Daniel, novelist Nicole Norton moves into a secluded cottage to hide from her own demons and to heal from personal loss. Her solitude is interrupted when her path crosses her elderly neighbor, Nora Oakley.


Threatened with confinement to a nursing home by her son, Nora needs money to pay for in-home care and decides to reveal her secret story to her new neighbor, Nicole. The two become fast friends, and as Nicole is pulled deeper and deeper into Nora's story of love and loss, she can't help but dig into her own painful memories.


Seventy-seven long years had passed since Nora Oakley befriended Bonnie Parker, the notorious girlfriend of the 1930's outlaw Clyde Barrow. It had been a friendship built on secrets and a shared history of breaking the law. Nora’s plan had been to take her secret past to the grave. But life doesn't often work the way we want it to.


Nora's story is sensational, and Nicole becomes fascinated with the legend surrounding Bonnie and Clyde. But when Nora reveals the terrible consequences she suffered because of her trust in Bonnie, Nicole and Nora forge a bond so deep that it transcends death itself and propels Nicole to make some hard choices about her own future.


Full of rich period detail and the intrinsic bond between women, NORA OAKLEY reveals how the human spirit can transcend tragedy.