“A tale of missed opportunities, conflicts of personalities, and misunderstandings leading to disaster, Herta Feely’s Saving Phoebe Murrow is a compelling first rate domestic drama, a book to set on the shelf alongside Sue Miller’s The Good Mother. Insightful, gripping,
 in the end thrilling. Most highly recommended. “

— Wayne Johnson, author of The Devil You Know

“When people talk about the fragility of adolescence, when they talk about social media and cyberbullying, when they talk about suicide among teenagers, they will talk about Herta Feely’s novel, Saving Phoebe Murrow.”

— Louise Farmer Smith, author of One Hundred Years of Marriage

“Saving Phoebe Murrow is a believable, gripping, heart-wrenching novel about how reality can be tragically manipulated in this age of social media. The wealthy, high-powered political milieu of Phoebe’s parents echoes the social jostling of the teens. Phoebe’s anguish as she tries to fit into the private-school social world is palpable. The intentions – good and otherwise – of a panoply of characters coalesce to a dramatic climax.”

— Jyotsna Sreenivasan, author of And Laughter Fell From the Sky

“Herta Feely deftly evokes the uncertain and fraught world of teen- agers and their parents. In her novel, she confidently navigates this world with brio, candor, and a rigorously grounded and, at times, humorous style that immediately grabs the reader.”

— Sandra Hunter, author of Losing Touch

“In her debut novel, Saving Phoebe Murrow, Herta Feely masterfully draws us into a domestic world of petty hurts that morph into pain... Mothers and daughters beware! “

— Ellen Bryson,
 author of The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno

Herta Feely is a writer, full-time editor, and the co-founder of Safe Kids Worldwide. Her short stories and memoir have been published in anthologies and literary journals, including The Sun, Lullwater Review, The Griffin, Provincetown Arts, and Big Muddy. In the wake of the James Frey scandal, Feely edited and published the anthology, Confessions: Fact or Fiction? Awarded the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and an Artist in Literature Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for The Trials of Serra Blue, she has also received an award from American Independent Writers for best published personal essay for a piece on immigration. Feely is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University. She has two grown sons and lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and cats.

Saving Phoebe Murrow [Upper Hand Press] will be available via all online and select brick-and-mortar book retailers as of September 2016.