Hayley Gelfuso at The Garment Factory

Join us on Sunday, September 14th at 12:00 pm at The Garment Factory for a luncheon with debut author Hayley Gelfuso! Hayley will discuss her new novel The Book of Lost Hours!

If you will not be attending the event, please use this link to preorder your copy for pick-up or shipping after the event.

A ticket includes entry to the event, a three-course lunch, and a signed hardcover copy of Hayley's new book.

Our goal is always for authors to pre-sign your copy of the event book before the event begins. Signed copies of the event book are dependent on the time of arrival of the author.

We are pleased to provide accessibility accommodations for this event upon request. To arrange accommodations, including accommodations related to a food allergy, or request additional information about accommodations for this event, please email eventservices@wildgeesebookshop.com

Please note: all food allergy accommodations need to be submitted at least one week before the event to allow staff to prepare alternate meals.

Publisher Guidelines:

*Signing/Photo line parameters are subject to change based on publisher preference. Any updates to signing parameters will be updated on the ticketing page prior to the event*

A signing line will be held after the event. 

Additional copies of Hayley's book will be available for purchase at the event.

Event Policies:

• Outside food or drink is not permitted at this venue.

• Photo/Signing line positions are assigned first come first served upon arrival of person and ticket scanned.

• A ticket is required for every person attending this event above the age of 2. This event does not allow at-the-door sales and individuals without a ticket can not be allowed entry.

• We love it when people share memories from their night but recording long-form video of the author's talk is not allowed at this event. Long-form video is considered to be any recorded video reaching a combined total of more than 3 minutes in length.

• By attending this event you are giving consent to be photographed or recorded by Wild Geese Bookshop.

• Can't make it to the event? Please email hello@wildgeesebookshop.com to arrange for shipping or pick up of your book.

• Books not picked up after 60 days are forfeited and can not be refunded.

About the book:

For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history.

Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son—but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn’t, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American spy named Ernest Duquesne in 1949 offers her a glimpse of the world she left behind, setting her on a course to change history and possibly the time space itself.

In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia Duquesne is mourning the disappearance of her uncle Ernest when an enigmatic CIA agent approaches her to enlist her help in tracking down a book of memories her uncle had once sought. But when Amelia visits the time space for the first time, she realizes that the past—and the truth—might not be as linear as she’d like to believe.

Perfect for fans of The Midnight Library and The Ministry of Time, The Book of Lost Hours explores time, memory, and what we sacrifice to protect those we love.

About the author:

Hayley Gelfuso is an author and poet who works in the environmental nonprofit sector. As a writer, she is drawn to stories of the wild and wonderful that are rooted in real-world history and science. Her poetry about her experiences working in the conservation field has been published in the Plumwood Mountain Journal. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband.