Homeplace
by Anne Rivers Siddons.
After twenty-one years Micah (Mike) Winship is making the big move--she's going home for a visit. She hasn't been back since 1963, when her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for her. And although she is armed with her succesful journalism career and the strength found after her divorce, she is nearing forty and her sophisticated urban lifestyle is falling apart.
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Fox's Earth
by Anne Rivers Siddons.
At Fox's Earth there was no room for love, no room for desire. There was only room for fear.
Ruth Yancey is only a small child the first time she lays eyes on the magnificent, three-storied Georgia house called Fox's Earth. The daughter of an impoverished and cruel mill worker, she knows that someday she will not only live in such a house, but will make it her own. And once she becomes Ruth Yancey Fox, she does, achieving total domination over all those under its roof. Or rather, all the women.
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Outer Banks
by Anne Rivers Siddons.
Yet another southern gothic twister from Siddons--though this time the author edges into the emotionally honest territory of, say, a Gail Godwin, right up until the very end, when she slams the melodramatic gas pedal to the floor. But things start out reasonably and interestingly enough, with middle-aged Kate Lee, a recent cancer patient who feels sure the little cancer ``Pac-Men'' are gobbling her again. Her husband, Alan, forces her to accept an invitation from an old sorority sister, Ginger Fowler, who stole Kate's true love, architecture student Paul Sibley, from her 28 years ago
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