Blogs in July 2020

The Last Original Wife 10th July 2020

Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley’s successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children—who they promised to love and cherish ’til death did them part—for...

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I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots 10th July 2020

Beginning in the late 1950s, this novel tells the story of Marietta Cook, a tall girl growing up in Pine Gardens, a Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina. When Marietta’s mother dies, she heads to Charleston in search of her...

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On Folly Beach 10th July 2020

Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it’s the personal battles of Folly Beach’s residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own… To...

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Edisto 10th July 2020

Simons Everson Manigault (‘You say it ‘Simmons.’ I’m a rare one-m Simons”) lives with his mother, an eccentric professor (known as the Duchess), on an isolated and undeveloped strip of South Carolina coast. Convinced that her son can be...

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On Leaving Charleston 10th July 2020

From the waning glory of the Old South… The plantation house, the lands, the golden traditions of Ashley Barony made it the pride of Charleston. But its fortunes fell violently, irrevocably, on Margaret Garden Tradd’s scandalous wedding day. To...

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