This author gained renown for her bold novels that delve into complex interpersonal relationships and societal issues. Her style is marked by keen psychological insight and compelling storytelling. Through her works, she explores themes of love, loss, and the search for identity within the dynamic American South. Her writing often reflects personal convictions and evokes strong emotions in readers.
After 21 years, Micah Winship is going home for a visit. She hasn't been home since her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for her. Armed with a successful career and a newfound strength following her divorce, Micah is still unprepared for a past that has lain in wait for her--one that includes an old love, a spoiled sister and a plot to seize her family's land.
Tenth anniversary edition! Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern aristocracy, here is a novel that chronicles the turbulent changes of a great city--Atlanta--and tells the story of love and hate between a man and a woman. When Lucy comes to live with her cousin, Sheppard, and his family in the great house on Peachtree Road, she is an only child, never expecting that her reclusive young cousin will become her lifelong confidant and the source of her greatest passion and most terrible need.
The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility, and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same . . . After an airless childhood in Savannah, Smoky O'Donnell arrives in Atlanta, dazzled and chastened by this hectic young city on the rise. Her new job as a writer with the city's Downtown magazine introduces her to many unforgettable people and propels her into the center of momentous events that will irrevocably alter her heart, her career, and her world.
“A wonderful story. . . .Siddons has returned to what she does gives us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading.” — Detroit News/Free Press From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that "family is everything." But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat. With her old world crumbling, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard, hoping to come to terms with who she truly is. When the summer season ends, Molly decides to stay on, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond—becoming part of an odd, new, very real family that taxes her old outworn notions. And as the long Vineyard winter approaches, Molly braces herself for the arduous task she must a search for renewal and identity, and the strength to carry her through to the warm and healing spring.
Maude Chambliss was a bride of 19 when she first came to the summer colony of Retreat. Now 90, Maude begins to reflect on her life and the characters who helped shape it. It is a time for remembering the past, learning lessons and preparing for the future. From the author of Hill Towns.
When Catherine Gaillard finally ends her self-imposed isolation in Tennessee for a trip to Italy, she finds that the travel transforms her, and her liberation threatens her husband.
The dark but seductive tale of five generations of Southern women and the house that was both their greatest inheritance and their most confining prison. In 1904, Ruth Yancey is only ten years old when she is brought to live at the magnificent mansion called Fox's Earth. But the impoverished daughter of an abusive mill worker has already internalized her mother's steely code: Men may hold all the power, but a woman possesses one thing that can get her anything in the world she wants...if she's prepared to make certain sacrifices. Deserted by her mother in order to give her a better chance at wealth, Ruth's own ambition drives her to possess Fox's Earth at any cost, even though her sacrifice will ultimately be her own husband, children, and grandchildren.
Novel-1956 with Eisenhower in White House, girl at southern university dealing with time of Elvis, and a changing society.
Best-selling author Anne Rivers Siddons returns to tell the story of Nora Findlay, a free-thinking young woman who turns the small town of Bazaar, Georgia, on its ear one summer in 1961. Thirteen-year-old Peyton's mother died when she was born and although her widower father assures her it wasn't her fault, Peyton believes it really was. When her mother's younger cousin Nora comes to Bazaar, Peyton isn't pleased by the intrusion. But Nora has a certain something about her - she laughs a lot, and she smokes and she seems to have done just about everything fun there is to do in this world. Her very presence seems to revitalize the entire household; even Peyton's father is in better spirits. But something is troubling Nora deeply. Peyton believes that whatever it is, it must be more than the snide comments made by neighbours who don't like her 'unsouthern' ways. Nora always laughs that off. It has to be something from her past that's bothering her, something she is running way from. When the shocking truth comes to light., it stuns the residents of their small segregated town. It also teaches Peyton the enormous cost of loving - and the necessity of doing it anyway.
Throughout her life Merritt has cared for all those around her. When Glynn, her stepdaughter runs away, Merritt follows her but soon decides that she is going to stay in California, where she finds an unexpected love and confronts Glynn before an earthquake strikes. From the author of HILL TOWNS and DOWNTOWN.
Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that will change them in ways they never expected.
Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a car accident. There, Aengus and Thayer lead quiet and happy lives until Aengus is invited up to the camp to tell old Irish tales to the campers. As Aengus spends less time at home and becomes more distant, Thayer must confront dark secrets-about her mother, her first love, and, most devastating of all, her husband.
In einer Männerwelt ganz auf sich selbst gestellt, wächst die zwölfjährige Emily auf der väterlichen Hundezuchtfarm auf, denn ihre Mutter hat die Familie schon vor Jahren verlassen. Allein ihr geliebter Hund Elvis gibt dem jungen Mädchen Halt. Eines Tages tritt die charismatische Lulu in ihr Leben. Emily ist zunächst eifersüchtig auf die schöne Zwanzigjährige, die alle – sogar Elvis – in ihren Bann zu ziehen scheint. Doch schon bald freunden sich die beiden unterschiedlichen Mädchen an…
Tenth anniversary edition! Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern aristocracy, here is a novel that chronicles the turbulent changes of a great city--Atlanta--and tells the story of love and hate between a man and a woman. When Lucy comes to live with her cousin, Sheppard, and his family in the great house on Peachtree Road, she is an only child, never expecting that her reclusive young cousin will become her lifelong confidant and the source of her greatest passion and most terrible need.
In einem Vorort Atlantas wird ein extravagantes Haus gebaut, das die Bewunderung aller Nachbarn erregt. Doch dann ereignen sich merkwürdige Vorfälle.
The author of the immensely popular Peachtree Road returns with a supreb, stunningly original story of two star-crossed lovers, set in the deep South's wealthy, beautiful hunt country. An explosive controversy involving a nearby nuclear arms plant pits a maverick recluse and teacher of poetry against those who would risk the beloved wilderness in which he dwells. Now his unsuspecting lover must choose to follow him--or save herself.
Seit dem Tod ihrer Tochter findet Caroline nur auf ihrer kleinen, urwüchsigen Insel etwas Seelenfrieden. Ihr Mann will die Insel vor der Küste South Carolinas allerdings zu einem Ferienparadies umgestalten.
Mit ihrem Mann Lewis und ihren Freunden, den äScrubsä, erlebt Anny wunderbare Wochenenden im gemeinsamen Strandhaus. Bis der Tod alles verändert.
Vele jaren nadat een vrouw haar jeugdliefde is kwijtgeraakt aan een rijke vriendin, krijgt ze van haar een uitnodiging voor een studentenreünie.
Nadat een vrouw met haar dochtertje haar gewelddadige echtgenoot is ontvlucht begint ze een nieuw leven in een door de jacht beheerste streek, waar ze verliefd wordt op een kluizenaar.
Ženský román americké autorky vypráví příběh ženy, která po rozpadu rodiny nachází znovu smysl života. Hrdinka, téměř padesátiletá matka dvou dospělých dětí a spokojená manželka, prochází nejtěžším obdobím svého života. Nečekaně se s ní rozvádí manžel, děti odcházejí z domova a její matka, k níž měla rozporuplný vztah, náhle umírá. Zničená a dezorientovaná žena odjíždí s přítelkyní na ostrov Martha´s Vineyard, kde si chce odpočinout a rozvážit, co dělat dál. Po odjezdu přítelkyně si pronajme daleko od letoviska domek v lesích a rozhodne se zůstat přes zimu. V této samotě poznává nové, svérázné lidi a z pohodlného, zajištěného života se rázem dostává do situace, kdy musí odkázaná sama na sebe pečovat o čtyři na ní závislé lidi. V péči o ně nachází novou svobodu a novou naději do budoucnosti
Román ze současného amerického Jihu, ve kterém je hrdinka pod tíhou okolností nucena přehodnotit celý svůj dosavadní život. Hlavní hrdinka, manželka bohatého jižanského podnikatele, žije osamoceně ve zdech luxusní vily. Těžce se vyrovnává s traumatem ztráty své milované dcery. Jedinou oázou, kde se cítí volně, je malý ostrov, který zdědila po své rodině. Setkává se tu s upřímnými, prostými lidmi a cítí se zde šťastná. Ve chvíli, kdy jí manžel oznámí, že jediný způsob, jak zachránit svou existenci, je prodat ostrov za komerčními účely, se ocitá ve zlomové životní situaci. Má zachránit manželův podnik, nebo obětovat milované místo a zradit tak jeho obyvatele, kteří jí důvěřují?... celý text
