Freshly Baked Books: Shadow of a Smile

Valerie Joan Connors’ latest novel, Shadow of a Smile, is about a woman discovering her mother’s hidden past. Recently published by Deeds Publishing, Shadow of a Smile takes its name from Johnny Mercer’s “The Shadow of Your Smile,” a song that helped launch Anastasia Springfield’s brief singing career. Anastasia is 30-year-old Meredith Springfield’s mother, and […]

Freshly Baked Books: The Hurricane Sisters

July 23, 2014 · by Brenda Lloyd | in Book Reviews | tagged Charleston, domestic violence, Dorothea Benton Frank, Lowcountry, Sullivan's Island, The Hurricane Sisters, women's fiction | 7 Comments

Email: Please click on the blue title to read in your browser. Storms are brewing in The Hurricane Sisters, the latest book by Dorothea Benton Frank, and it’s not just a hurricane heading for Sullivan’s Island. True to Frank’s past fourteen novels, this one, just published by William Morrow, is set in the South Carolina […]

Freshly Baked Books: The Sins of the Mother

September 3, 2013 · by Christina Kaylor | in Book Reviews | tagged Abigail Tarttelin, Anton Disclafani, Golden Boy, intersex, Karen Brown, miscarriage, teenagers in trouble, The Longings of Wayward Girls, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, women's fiction | 4 Comments

The prophet Ezekiel said: “The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. ” (18:19-20) But what about the sins of the mother? That, I found to be the unifying question in three new novels, published May, June, and July of this year: […]