Rambling Rose Author:Calder Willingham For a brief, glorious time in the sweltering summer of 1935, Rose enters and enriches the lives of Daddy and Mother Hillyer and their precocious 13 year old son Buddy. A pretty, towheaded country girl, she arrives at the Hillyer home with a cardboard suitcase, dusty shoes, runs in her stockings . . . and a lusty twinkle in her cornflower blue ey... more »es. Overbrimming with a seemingly inexhaustible love, she innocently inspires a rash of comic catastrophes that turns a family and their sleepy southern community upside down . . . and awakens a young boy to the sweet, sensuous mysteries of adulthood.« less