Linger - Couverture souple

Hanson, Rhonda

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798218717957

Editeur : Grace Under Pressure Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

A baby girl was once whisked away from her grandparents' home in an attempt to remove her from a drunken, abusive father, and to get her to safety. The baby girl is now a beautiful woman. Hester Collins and her mother combined their meager wages to keep a roof over their heads but now that Catherine Collins has passed, Hester is all alone. When her grandparents learn of Catherine's death, they write a letter and plead with their granddaughter to come live with them.

Hester finds a loving home with the elderly couple that she never really knew, on a farm at the end of a dirt road. She discovers a fascinating old man just up the road, at the Bishop farm, who has an immediate and emotional reaction to her return, and who shares his wit, his wisdom, and his poetry with her, despite the apparent displeasure of his suspicious, unamused son.

Hester also discovers her passion for growing things and for preserving the beauty of herbs and wildflowers with her art and her own gift for poetry. The elder Mister Bishop has declared the young woman, that his son has described as having dirty, bare feet and a profusion of long hair, flying in every direction, to be a wild wood nymph. The more disapproving his son becomes, the more humor his father finds in the effortless way the guileless, natural beauty manages to irritate him.

Despite his unwillingness, the day will come when the younger Mister Bishop must ask for help from Hester Collins. He will depend on her. He will need her. He will leave her.

His father once told him that life's pages only flip in one direction, and that he couldn't turn them back to read them again. Has he turned a page that he should have lingered on?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rhonda Hanson is one of a pair of twins, the youngest of ten siblings, raised on Black Bayou in Louisiana. For much of her childhood, she lived without the luxuries of indoor plumbing and electricity and, growing up without the Internet, devices, or television, she was left to discover the exciting worlds that can only be discovered within the pages of a good book. She is a collector of vintage children's books, and is not embarrassed to admit that she will reread the same book over and over, if it makes her happy. Her own imagination began to be challenged at an early age, and she would pen practically anything and everything that fermented in her mind, much of which is sadly lost or left back in her youth, probably in some old trunk in someone's barn.Today, Rhonda is a novelist, recording artist, songwriter, musician and speaker, but her most crowning achievement is being "Grammy" to her two granddaughters. She spends her days in middle Tennessee, writing, convincing feral cats that the Hanson Hotel is open for business, bragging to anyone who will listen about her grandchildren and tearing all her MacBooks apart and rebuilding them, because of her stubborn refusal to upgrade. Her first completed novel was "Father's Choice", book one in the three-book Father series, followed by "Father's Wing"s and "Father's Song", and the linked novel "Father's Friend". Rhonda is also the author of a children's book, "The Adventures Of Pahwoo And Her Friends", which is the narrative of an ongoing bedtime story she regularly told her grandchildren, for a period of over seven years, "The Master Of Hawthorn Manor","Buying The Farm", "Once Upon An Altar", "The Art of Letting Go", "Dancing to an Elegy for Eden", "The Long Goodbye" and "Love Finds The Way Home".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grace Under Pressure Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798218717957
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible