Happy Friday! Today I am featuring another book recommended by a friend. In High Cotton by Ane Mulligan is an historical novel set in Georgia in 1929. Rural south Georgia is already suffering economic woes, so what else can the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression bring? I look forward to reading about the women who survive and thrive.
Here’s the first line:
Sadie always says, “Southern women may seem as delicate as flowers, but we’ve got iron in our veins.”
While the rest of the world has been roaring through the 1920s, times are hardscrabble in rural South Georgia. Widow Maggie Parker is barely surviving while raising her young son alone. Then as banks begin to fail, her father-in-law threatens to take her son and sell off her livelihood—the grocery store her husband left her. Can five Southern women band together, using their wisdom and wiles to stop him and survive the Great Depression?
While a large, floppy straw hat is her favorite, Ane Mulligan has worn many different ones: hairdresser, legislative affairs director (that’s a fancy name for a lobbyist), drama director, playwright, humor columnist, and bestselling novelist. Her lifetime experience provides a plethora of fodder for her Southern-fried fiction (try saying that three times fast).
Ane firmly believes coffee and chocolate are two of the four major food groups. Her passion when she isn’t writing her Southern-fried Fiction is Community Theatre. She’s Chairman of the Board of Players Guild@Sugar Hill, a non-profit Community Theatre company, where she and her husband act, direct, build sets, and are chief go-fors.
Contributor to the award-winning literary site, The Write Conversation, Ane resides in Sugar Hill, GA, with her artist husband, her chef son, and a rascally Rottweiler.
You can find Ane on her website and blog: http://www.anemulligan.com.
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