A spellbinding novel of sin and salvation, adultery and revenge in a small Mississippi town... Once Leona Sayres was a good Southern woman married to the town preacher. But from the day Averill buried her newborn baby girl, Leona has seethed in unspeakable loneliness and rage. She knows there i...
Hez never saw any landlord come around. He figured that she had just squatted there. He slept on a pallet in an alcove she called the sewing room. He found night work baking bricks at a local plant. A minister Moena had known helped get him enrolled in the divinity college. It was rougher going t...
One of the most unpleasant surprises I had on arrival at Fairbridge was the reality of the trainee scheme – effectively a program of hard labour. Most boys and girls were forced to leave school at fifteen so they could work on a rotating roster of jobs around the farm for the next two years. Al...