Nell and Lady
When Willa’s housemaid and best friend, Mavis, dropped dead unexpectedly Willa chose to take in
her daughter despite the disapproval of her other friends and neighbours.
Mavis’...
Book Reviews: Southern Fiction
Salvage the Bones
Salvage The Bones is set over twelve days leading up to the impact of Hurricane Katrina but it is so much more than a novel about the devastating impact of that storm. It is also about poverty and the...
Beyond The Garden
Beyond The Garden is the brilliant second book in the Magnolia Series.
Everything is finally beginning to fall into place for Ellie. She is married to the man of her dreams, the restoration of her...
The Twelve-Mile Straight
In a small town in rural Georgia, two babies are born - one light skinned and one dark. Their mother, Elma Jessop is a white sharecroppers daughter and the birth of her children causes a scandal in...
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is about a mute man named John Singer. Singer lives in a small town in a Southern state in America. Singer is an incredibly lonely man but there is something about him...
Magnolia Nights
Magnolia Nights is the latest in a long line of brilliant Southern fiction from Ashley Farley. Even though I loved The Sweeney Sister series I have to say this book was even better.
At the start of...
American War
It is 2074 and a second American Civil War has broken out between the Northern and Southern states of America, the (Blues) and the (Reds.)
Sarat Chestnut is six and lives with her family in a...
Sweet Tea Tuesdays
Sweet Tea Tuesdays tells the tale of three friends who have met every Tuesday at 4pm for twenty -six years to drink sweet tea and keep each other abreast of the goings on in their lives. Georgia, Lula...
Tangle of Strings
A nearly tragic accident leads to a discovery that rocks the Sweeney family’s world
Her Sister's Shoes
Her Sister’s Shoes is the story of three sisters—Samantha, Jackie, and Faith—who struggle to balance the demands of career and family while remaining true to themselves.
