"We began the dress on the last evening in October."
For three sisters, it will become a banner of hope, spun
from delicate memories of genteel tradition and woven with
threads of possibility. Through the desolate landscape of
winter, it will act as a beacon of unexpected fortune and
faith in a world void of promise. It will inspire the noble
heart that lies dormant beneath layers of grief. Together,
the stalwart ladies of Oak Creek, Virginia will fashion
their impossible dreams into . . .
THE
WEDDING DRESS
Virginia Renfro Ellis’s extraordinary work of historical
fiction evokes the tattered essence of the post-Civil War
South, where widows, children, and scarred veterans were
left to reconstruct a country. There is little to wish for
in the lives of the Atwater women. Julia and Victoria were
barely brides before their husbands marched off with the
doomed Confederate army. Now alone, with scarcely enough
money to see them through until spring, they embark on an
impetuous mission to bring a sparkle of joy back into their
youngest sister’s eyes. Seventeen-year-old Claire has always
wanted to be married. And though she has no intended groom,
her sisters decide to sew her a wedding gown.
As the
dress takes shape, the gates of their meager plantation home
welcome the arrival of Sergeant Monroe Tacy. He has come to
fulfill a dying man’s last request, but his presence begins
a series of remarkable events that will transform the
Atwater sisters forever.
The Wedding Dress is
an unforgettable lesson in hope, written with the natural
simplicity and beauty of a born storyteller.
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