Susan R. (GentlyUsed) reviewed If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (Ballad, Bk 1) on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Sharyn McCrumb is an aware winning southern author. The below is from her web site:
"She is best known for her Appalachian "Ballad" novels, set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains, including New York Times Best Sellers She Walks These Hills and The Rosewood Casket, which deal with the issue of the vanishing wilderness, and The Ballad of Frankie Silver, the story of the first woman hanged for murder in the state of North Carolina; and The Songcatcher, a genealogy in music, tracing the author's family from 18th century Scotland to the present by following a Scots Ballad through the generations. Ghost Riders, an account of the Civil War in the mountains of western North Carolina, won the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature given by the East Tennessee Historical Society."
These are excellent books, I have read most of them.
"She is best known for her Appalachian "Ballad" novels, set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains, including New York Times Best Sellers She Walks These Hills and The Rosewood Casket, which deal with the issue of the vanishing wilderness, and The Ballad of Frankie Silver, the story of the first woman hanged for murder in the state of North Carolina; and The Songcatcher, a genealogy in music, tracing the author's family from 18th century Scotland to the present by following a Scots Ballad through the generations. Ghost Riders, an account of the Civil War in the mountains of western North Carolina, won the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature given by the East Tennessee Historical Society."
These are excellent books, I have read most of them.
Kathy S. (kswift) reviewed If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (Ballad, Bk 1) on + 57 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Another story from the perspective of the local sheriff's department in Hamelin, TN. A country singer moves to this town, and she begins to receive threatening postcards. Parallel stories involve one of the sheriff deputies. Good descriptions of the countryside. Good writing--engaging--made me want to keep reading to see how the story would turn out.
