Author: Henriette Hampton Morris; Format: Hardcover; Release Date: 1999; Publisher: Summerhouse Press; ISBN: 9781570033919; List Price: $20.00; Length: 289 pages; Edition: 1. Condition: Very Good. Back of jacket has stubborn sticker over UPC code. Title page is inscribed by the author! Jacket and cover are both still in overall great shape, binding is strong, and pages are otherwise unmarked. Same cover design as that shown here.

Synopsis:
Morris's sweeping debut novel aims for readers seeking a gentle, romantic epic that gleans its drama not from racy action but from tender family ties and dreamy nostalgia. The story spans eight decades in the lives of South Carolina's six Willoughby sisters, opening with nonagenarian Lucy in her hospital bed dreaming about the days of her youth. She flashes back to the family's Ashton Plantation in 1910 when she is 10 years old, surrounded by sisters Lyda, 20; Mary, 17; Sally, 11; Daphne, seven; and Jenny, three. Much of the plot scans the various courtships and nuptials of the siblings, as one by one they are married off, but the stories of the three middle sisters, Lucy, Sally, and Daphne, take center stage. Lucy is brokenhearted early on when Adam, the man she's fallen in love with and jilted her fiance for, dies suddenly. Sally is the strong, sassy sister who weds alcoholic Crawford and later becomes a secretary to support herself. Daphne, perceived as the spoiled brat, steals Mary's beau and marries him for money. Through a succession of marriages, births and deaths, the sisters turn to each other for help, often relying on their papa's one-dimensional advice about duty and good breeding.

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