Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations, has released its opening round nominees for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards and former Watkins Mill teacher Sara Confino’s novel Behind Every Good Man has been nominated in the Historical Fiction category. Opening round voting runs until later this month.
In addition to Behind Every Good Man, Confino is the author of three other bestselling novels. For the Love of Friends, She’s Up to No Good, and Don’t Forget to Write. Don’t Forget to Write reached #2 in the US Kindle store at release. Behind Every Good Man was released on August 6 from Lake Union Publishing and spent a month as the bestseller in the historical romance category.
Set in 1962, Beverly Diamond seems like she has the perfect life–that is, until she catches her husband, who is the campaign manager for a senator seeking reelection, cheating with his secretary. Beverly throws him out, and when her husband threatens to sell the house, she gets a job–working for the opposing candidate. It’s an empowering story of feminism, family, and strong women who refuse to settle, told with humor and heart. It’s set primarily in and around Montgomery County with lots of fun throwbacks to county staples that are long gone, like Montgomery Donuts, the Colonial Manor Motel, and Hofberg’s delicatessen, as well as plenty of locations current residents will recognize.
“I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember–in fact, in my baby book, there’s a handwritten paper called, “Sara’s first story.” Apparently, I told my grandfather a story about a duckand he wrote it down,” Confino said. She credits her aunt and uncle, longtime Montgomery County residents Dolly and Marvin Band, for the primary research for Don’t Forget to Write and Behind Every Good Man. “My uncle is 91, and he remembers EVERYTHING.