On a dark kentucky night in 1952exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, annie hollerancrosses into forbidden territory. Frankfurt book fair adult rights guide michael meller literary agency. Lori roy made history both by being the first woman to win an edgar award for both best first book and best. On a dark kentucky night in 1952 exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, annie holleran crosses into forbidden territory.
I saw the glossy new and very purple cover at the library, picked it up. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Tradition says that a girl who looks into a well at exactly midnight will see the face of. Sugar street sucked me in and wouldnt let me go until the very last page. I like my fictional families dark, secretive and complicated, and this one did not let me down. She currently lives with her family in west central florida and her. The best book ive read in a while, already downloaded bent road and cant wait to read. Additional gift options are available when buying one ebook at a time. And if annie is to save herself, her family and this small kentucky town, she must face the terrible reality of what happened all those years ago. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. This depressionera story is a sad one, written in every shade of gothic black. Gone too long coming june 2019 jjill, in partnership with o the oprah magazine names lori one of five inspired women as part of their inspired women campaign.
On a dark kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her 15th and 16th birthdays, annie holleran crosses into forbidden territory. A longstanding rift exists between the hollerans and the baines family, ever since one of the seven baines brothers was hanged 16 years earlier for a vicious crime. Its annie hollerans day of ascension, the halfway mark between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays. Lori serves as treasurer for the sisters in crime organisation and is a liaison to the author coalition. Dead milk snakes, nailed up to ward off evil, amid fields of lavender. On a dark kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, annie holleran crosses into forbidden territory. But its true colors emerge in the rich textures of the narrative, and in the music of that voice, as hypnotic as the scent coming off a field of lavender.