Research Catalog

Title

The peach keeper : a novel / Sarah Addison Allen.

Author

Allen, Sarah Addison

Publication

New York : Bantam Books, c2011.

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Details

Description

273 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Willa Jackson of Walls of Water, North Carolina, has lately learned that an old classmate--socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood--of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored her family's Blue Ridge Madam home to its former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. But when a skeleton, found buried beneath the lone peach tree on the property is found, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families.

Subject

• Family secrets > Fiction
• Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction
• North Carolina > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction.
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Fiction.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the town's famous fog. Thirty-year-old Willa Jackson descends from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam -- built by Willa's great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water's heyday, and once the town's grandest home -- has stood empty for years. However, socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood wants to restore it to its former glory, and begins renovating it. But when a skeleton is found buried beneath the property's lone peach tree, the town's troubled past is brought to the surface. The two women must form an unlikely friendship to confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families. -book cover.

ISBN

• 9780553807226 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0553807226 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9780553908138 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
• 0553908138 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2010047828

OCLC

646113465

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library