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Ballantine Books
June 2011
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Featuring: Ava Dabrowski; Will Fraser
368 pages
ISBN: 0345506014
EAN: 9780345506016
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Cathy Holton, author of the popular Beach Trip, returns
with an intriguing and mysterious tale of dark deeds and
family secrets in a small Southern town. After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski
quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee,
at the invitation of her old college friend Will Fraser and
his two great-aunts, Josephine and Fanny Woodburn. Her
charming hosts offer Ava a chance to relax at their idyllic
ancestral estate, Woodburn Hall, while working on her first
novel. But Woodburn is anything but quiet: Ancient feuds lurk just
beneath its placid surface, and modern-day rivalries emerge
as Ava finds herself caught between the competing
attentions of Will and his black-sheep cousin Jake.
Fascinated by the family’s impressive history—their
imposing house filled with treasures, and their mingling
with literary lions Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner—Ava
stumbles onto rumors about the darker side of the
Woodburns’ legacy. Putting aside her planned novel, she
turns her creative attentions to the eccentric and tragic
clan, a family with more skeletons (and ghosts) in their
closets than anyone could possibly imagine. As Ava
struggles to write the true story of the Woodburns, she
finds herself tangled in the tragic history of a mysterious
Southern family whose secrets mirror her own.
Comments
1 comment posted.
Re: Summer In The South
Cathy Holton captures the eccentricities of Southern life in this brilliant novel of family dysfunction. Part romance, part ghost story - this book is perfect for those lazy days of reading and dreaming of the South.
(Sharon Galligar Chance 12:11pm December 1, 2011)
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