Author to discuss book with Lakeville links June 2

LAKEVILLE --- Author Annie Hartnett will appear at the Lakeville Public Library on Tuesday, June 2 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss her novel, “The Road to Tender Hearts,’’ which was published in 2025.

Combining humor and tragedy, this book follows a dysfunctional blended family (and one clairvoyant cat) on a chaotic cross-country road trip. Area readers will find several Lakeville references in this book which won the 2025 New England Book Award for fiction.

Hartnett is the author of two other books:  “Unlikely Animals’’  in 2022 and “Rabbit Cake’’ in 2017.

She lives locally with her family and rescue dogs.