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Veteran novelist Siddons (Islands; Nora, Nora) returns to South Carolina's low country for her latest, a capable but uninspired story of a young girl's coming-of-age on the family plantation. Emily Parmenter is a lonely 12-year-old whose life revolves around the Boykin spaniels her family raises as hunting dogs. Her mother ran off; her beloved disabled brother, Buddy, who introduced her to literature, blew his head off with a shotgun (although Emily has conversations with him in her head); and her father, Walter, withholds all praise and attention. Her solace is her dog, Elvis, and Cleta, the wise black housekeeper. When 20-year-old LuLu Foxworth of the blueblood Foxworths arrives to spend time at the Parmenter plantation and work with the dogs, Emily is reluctant to welcome her, while social-climbing Walter is thrilled, hoping LuLu can teach Emily "to be a lady." The two emotionally neglected girls bond, and Lulu confides her dirty little secret: her addiction to alcohol and the smarmy Yancey Byrd, with whom Lulu has a 9½ Weeks-style love affair.
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Glenda B. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I enjoyed the story. It was hard for me to decide how I felt about some of the characters. I've finished the book and I'm still not sure.
There was too much descriptive prose for my taste, so I skimmed some paragraphs and I was a little unsatisfied with the ending. I guess I always want complete closure.
All in all, though, a good read. I'll look for more of this author's books.
Mary Ann S. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A very interesting and compelling southern novel about a young girl who lives an isolated life on an old plantation raising hunting dogs. Her life changes and she grows up too fast after a troubled, wealthy neighbor girl comes to live with them. I really enjoyed this book.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book is sooooo good. Beautiful work of a very talented author just pours visison of the south into your mind and tells the tale of a small girl in the south as she grows up without a mother and finds a true life long friend. Abbsolutly wonderful.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
My first read of this author & I am anixous to read others by her. About a girl who helps her father raise & train spaniels for hunting in South Carolina. Great story of family & people of wealth as well as simpler life. A feel good book.
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For those who like insight into the "southern" life along with a peak into what occupies those literary hearts and minds - this is Siddons forte and she does it well. Too southern for my taste but worth a quick read.
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Wonderful, sweet book of a 12 year old girl and the summer she turns 13..... I loved this book....
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Sue E. (Twelve year old Emily Parmenter survived her mother's abandonment and her beloved older brother's death, and now finds purpose in training her father's magnificent spaniels and refuse in the magic of Sweetwater Creek. But a new friend has entered Emily's life-a troubled daughter of privilege whose secrets threaten to blow a hole in Emily's beautiful world and let the real one in.
Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter survived her mother's abandonment and her beloved older brother's death -- and now finds purpose in training her father's magnificent spaniels . . . and refuge in the magic of Sweetwater Creek.
But a new friend has entered Emily's life -- a troubled daughter of privilege whose secrets threaten to blow a hole in Emily's beautiful world and let the real one in . . .
A haunting story. It makes you want to be right there, in Sweetwater Creek and comfort Emily.
Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter survived her mother's abandonment and her beloved older brother's death-and now finds purpose in training her father's magnificent spaniels....and refuge in the magic of Sweetwater Creek. But a new friend has entered Emily's life-a troubled daughter of privilege whose secrets threaten to blow a hole in Emily's beautiful world and let the real one in...
Another wonderful Low country story by Anne Rivers Siddons. A mystical, almost spiritual coming-of-age story with wonderful characters. I couldn't put it down!
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