Congratulations to June Hall McCash, winner of the 2013 Georgia Novel of the Year. Page Turners read Almost to Eden in May and Plum Orchard was added to many of our members’ wishlists. (Click on the highlighted link for Almost to Eden to read more about McCash and my review.)
June Hall McCash, named 2011 Georgia Author of the Year for her first novel, Almost to Eden, once again delivers a story of hope and renewal with Plum Orchard. The saga is set on Cumberland Island during plantation-era Georgia and centers around a remarkable woman known as Elisabeth Bernardey. Zabette, as she is called, was born the illegitimate daughter of a planter and a slave and was raised as the planter’s daughter, so she finds herself neither completely free nor totally in bondage. Plum Orchard chronicles her journey through the Antebellum South as she strives to live in two worlds while belonging totally to neither. This epic tale spans a large portion of the nineteenth century and is a narrative that explores both the darkness that was slavery and the light that lives within the human heart.
I live in Georgia and am eager to read these books! I put Almost to Eden on hold at my library, and just discovered that I already have The River Witch on my Kindle. Thanks for sharing.
I live in Georgia too! I love reading books set in my backyard. I have a list that keeps getting longer and longer!