![]() ![]() ![]() That intrigued me.” Like the Palo Alto Daily News Facebook page for neighborhood news and conversation from Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Redwood City and beyond. It was much more about hijinks and costumes and horseback riding. ![]() “They were country parties, not super glamorous, the way I thought of the pop culture of the ’20s. “Looking at that was like looking in a portal,” McMillan said. Reached by phone at her Ohio residence, McMillan said that the spark for the novel came from uncovering family relics at the farm, including a scrapbook her husband’s great-grandmother had kept of all their 1920s house parties. A mysterious necklace from India, which holds the key to a long-buried family secret, weaves their tales together. The book depicts two generations of women in the Quincy family - a Jazz Age beauty and a 21st century lawyer. In conjunction with the publication of her enthralling new novel, “The Necklace,” McMillan will make an appearance at Palo Alto’s Books Inc. And McMillan pursued a career writing fiction. In 2003, she and her husband moved to his family farm, built in the 1920s, outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Claire McMillan was based in the Bay Area and practicing complex corporate litigation for a San Francisco firm when her life took a dramatic turn. ![]()
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