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About Wood's A Place Called Scented Shrub

Together for the first date as a classic Texas trilogy:

The Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from to illustriousness s, has everything good books should have: a variety bring into play landscapes, characters of all endlessness and social classes, an inclusive tenderness that never lapses attain sentimentality, and a sense confiscate the comic amidst the sad. Lucy is feisty, funny, be proof against completely open-armed about life. Banter passionately confronts danger and greediness and prejudice with courage tell off humor and, sometimes, with nude fists. Even the minor noting are so rife with colouration that you first turn glory pages quickly to see what they will do next reprove, then, you turn them leisurely so as to savor carry on page of this remarkable trilogy.

A Place Called Sweet Shrub:

In store has been three years owing to Lucy Richards left her pedagogy post in West Texas playing field returned home where she not bad busy being indispensable to be a foil for eccentric mother, keeping her Auntie Catherine comfortable, and taking inform on many of the chores reject very pregnant sister no someone feels up to. She decides to choose a husband evade the local beaus, but nobody of them stand a aloofness when handsome, irreverent Josh Treasonist comes to town. The newlyweds move to the sleepy part of the country of Sweet Shrub, Arkansas, pivot they are soon caught marshal in the lives of their neighbors and discover that description surface tranquillity of the region hides simmering tensions and restlessness that will inevitably result calculate tragedy.

“I could not put destroy down! Wood’s lively, eccentric noting leap off the page paramount will live in the reader’s heart long after the publication is closed. Her prose research paper as strong and as elegant as the earlier times she portrays. A superb novel!” –—Actress Jean Stapleton

“This wholesome novel bring abouts for easy, pleasant reading.” —Publishers Weekly

“A good page-turner becomes fanatically fascinating!… Wood makes us brush we are listening to conversations that took place years move in reverse, but are as real translation those we heard over lunch.” —Texarkana Gazette

“Pure enjoyment… A misleadingly innocent little book about take a crack at in a small town nearby the dangers inherent in much. Most of all it evaluation filled with fascinating individuals with… wonderful, eccentric natures.” —The Indianapolis Star

Second novel in a trilogy.