Lara Prescott is a New York Times bestselling author whose work has been translated into over 30 languages.


Lara received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Her debut novel, The Secrets We Kept, was an instant NYT bestseller, a Hello Sunshine x Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, an Edgar Award nominee for Best First Fiction, a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, and winner of 2019 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award in Fiction. It has been translated into 30 languages and is being adapted for television by The Ink Factory and Marc Platt Productions. She lives in coastal New Hampshire with her family.

Want to learn more about Lara?
Try this NYT profile, this NPR piece, or this LA Review of Books interview.

“The epic sweep of Prescott’s narrative ambition is stunning.”
—Paste magazine