Lady Author:Thomas Tryon LADY recreates a small New England town of the 1930s and '40s. Seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, Woody, we meet Lady, a charming widow, owner of an imposing home on the Green. As does Woody, we come to care for and love his "special friend." — But there is more to Lady than meets the eye, and we share Woody's fear as he closes in on... more » Lady's terrible secret.
Against the rich nostalgia of a small New England town in the '30s and '40s, this spellbinding novel unfolds the story of a wealthy and beautiful widow whose enigmatic past weaves an ever-tightening web of suspense around her and those who love her.« less
This book is filled with the nostalgia of a family and a mysterious "Lady" who lives across the park. It's a wonderful look back in time and has an ending that is quite the surprise!
"The novel re-creates the texture of life in an American small town and brings back our own lost memories of the nineteen-thirties and -forties. It is a heart piercing evocation of a bittersweet alliance, with all its thorny ambiguities, between a charming woman and an adoring young boy. It holds readers in a delicately tautening suspense as it gradually reveals the unimaginable truth about its lovely-and elusive-heroine. And about all, it gives us Lady."