*A 2022 FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK AWARD FINALIST* A new novel by the award-winning author of  Under the Mercy Trees. Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party. An incomplete paternity test—and a will that places a condition on each daughter’s inheritance—suggest that the missing daughter isn’t a figment of his dementia.  Jane, the eldest, is tired of her father’s eccentricities. She remembers the scarcity of her childhood and doesn’t want another sister to share the birthright.  Rosie, born out of wedlock, sees the missing sister as her key to acceptance as a full member of the puppeteer’s family. Cora, the youngest, born after Walter achieved fame and fortune, is most concerned with extricating herself from running Walter’s company so that she can pursue her own life.  The sisters each knew a different version of their enigmatic father, but all grew up in the presence of fairy tales acted out with marionettes and shadow puppets. If they are to find the fourth daughter and claim the legacy their father has left them, the three must confront their fractured relationships with their father and each other. Infused with fairy tales that sometimes spill magic into the sisters’ real lives,  The Puppeteer’s Daughters  is a stunningly-woven family saga about the cost and rewards of claiming a creative life. “A complicated father-daughter story that fulfills its promise. Fans of Tara Conklin’s The Last Romantics and Melissa Scholes Young’s The Hive will love this.” — Library Journal “Heather Newton has written a tender family saga with gorgeous prose, a lot of heart, some big secrets, and a little bit of magic.” —Sarah McCraw Crow, author of The Wrong Kind of Woman “With this mix of traditional fairy tales, offbeat original scripts, insights into the world of puppetry, a touch of King Lear , and the basic personality of a romcom, The Puppeteer’s Daughters is a charming read with some unexpected thoughtfulness between the lines.” — New York Journal of Books “An aging, celebrated puppeteer throws his daughters’ lives into chaos in Heather Newton’s gripping new novel . . . A heartwarming story about self-acceptance, forgiveness, and the strings sometimes attached to family love.” — Foreword Reviews “ The Puppeteer’s Daughters  by Heather Newton masterfully captures the tenderness and tension between sisters . . . Newton employs a light touch with this enchanting tale of memory, myth, and magic, as each of The Puppeteer’s Daughters  begins to untangle her complicated family legacy.” —Kim Wright, author of The Canterbury Sisters  and Last Ride to Graceland “Beautifully rooted in classic fairy tales, and rich with the intricacies of the puppeteer’s art, Heather Newton’s novel animates the lives of three complex women.” —Laura Kalpakian, author of Memory into Memoir  and These Latter Days “Heartfelt, intriguing and breathtakingly creative. The Puppeteer’s Daughters  proves that happily-ever-afters aren’t always the ending to fairytales—sometimes they’re just the beginning.  Heather Newton is a born storyteller, showing us that magic can spill into our everyday lives when we step out of our comfort zones.” —Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times  bestselling author of Garden Spells and Other Birds “Perfectly plotted, wonderfully paced, with characters I loved and rooted for page after page.”  —Tessa Fontaine, author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts Heather Newton ’s novel  Under The Mercy Trees  (HarperCollins, 2011) won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, was chosen by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads Selection, and was named an Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her short story collection,  McMullen Circle  (Regal House, 2022), was a finalist for the W.S. Porter prize. Her novel  The Puppeteer’s Daughters  (Turner, 2022) is her second novel. A practicing attorney, she teaches creative writing for UNC-Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and is co-founder and program manager for the Flatiron Writers Room in Asheville, North Carolina (flatironwritersroom.com). Visit her website at heathernewton.net.