Suzanne Strempek Shea, winner of the 2000 New England Book Award for Fiction, is the author of the novels "Selling the Lite of Heaven; Hoopi Shoopi Donna; Lily of the Valley;" and "Around Again;" and the memoirs "Songs from a Lead-Lined Room: Notes -- High and Low -- From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation;" and "Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore." She lives in Bondsville, Massachusetts.