Highlands Ranch:Join actor, screenwriter & novelist Mara Purl, (“Darla Cook” on Days Of Our Lives), who popularized small-town fiction for women with her successful Milford-Haven Novels. Early editions of Mara’s novels won or were shortlisted for numerous awards including the Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize, the National Indie
Excellence Book Award, USA Book News Best Book, and the ForeWord Book of the
Year. Her beloved fictitious town has been delighting audiences since 1992, when it first appeared as Milford-Haven, U.S.A.—the first American radio drama ever licensed and broadcast by the BBC. The show reached an audience of 4.5 million listeners throughout the United Kingdom. Mara’s other writing credits include plays, screenplays, as well as scripts for The Guiding Light. She joins us for a discussion of her most recent book, What the Heart Knows.
