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Also by Jennifer Niven:

Meet the Newmans, January 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
All the Bright Places, January 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Becoming Clementine, October 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Velva Jean Learns To Fly, September 2011
Paperback
Velva Jean Learns To Drive, August 2009
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VELVA JEAN LEARNS TO DRIVE
By: Jennifer Niven

Plume
August 2009
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Featuring: Velva Jean
416 pages
ISBN: 0452289459
EAN: 9780452289451
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Women's Fiction Historical

In this spellbinding debut, Velva Jean Hart finds true love- and then risks everything to follow her dreams

Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.

Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world". Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher. As their tumultuous love story unfolds, Velva Jean must choose between keeping her hard- won home and pursuing her dream of singing in the Grand Ole Opry.