by Donna Van Liere (Author)
1950 Tennessee, a time and place that straddles the past and present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town (though she's only in her early thirties) and she takes that label with good humour and a grain of salt. Ever since her parents passed away, she has hidden her loneliness behind a fierce independence and a claim of not needing anyone. But her mother's death hit her harder than anyone suspects and Ivorie wonders if she will be alone forever. When she realises that someone has been stealing vegetables from her garden - a feral, dirty-faced boy who disappears into the hills - something about him haunts Ivorie. She can't imagine what would make him desperate enough to steal and eat from her garden. But what she truly can't imagine is what the boy faces, each day and night, in the filthy lean-to hut miles up in the hills. Who is he? How did he come to live in the hills? Where did he come from? And, more importantly, can she save him? As Ivorie steps out of her comfort zone to uncover the answers, she unleashes a firestorm in the town - a community that would rather let secrets stay secret.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 13 Aug 2012
ISBN 10: 0312367775
ISBN 13: 9780312367770
Praise for The Good Dream
The story of a woman's love, sacrifice, and bravery to save a small, wounded boy, Donna VanLiere has faithfully re-created the South of the 1950s, in both the innocence of the time and its evil. It's a beautiful story. --Kathleen Kent, bestselling author of The Heretic's Daughter
The Good Dream is a great story of people saving each other in the unlikeliest ways. A heartwarming winner of a book. -- Jenna Blum, bestselling author of The Stormchasers
Both heartrending and redemptive, The Good Dream imagines the profound power that love holds to change a life. --- Katherine Howe, bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Donna VanLiere has created a marvelous character in Ivorie of Morgan Hill, Tennessee. Hers is a compelling story of a young woman who must choose between her dreams and saving a boy she is told is forever damaged. Her struggle will intrigue you, entertain you, and will make you think important thoughts. That's about as much as we can ask a novel to do. - Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys/October Sky and The Keeper's Son.
Written with all the gumption of its Tennessee characters, The Good Dream is a great story of people saving each other in the unlikeliest ways. A heartwarming winner of a book. -- Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers
Donna VanLiere has woven an intoxicating Southern gothic tale of solitary Ivorie Walker, a capable young woman who must confront the terrible secrets that lie below the placid surface of life in the 1950s Tennessee countryside. At times both heartrending and redemptive, The Good Dream imagines the profound power that love holds to change a life, while tracing the reverberations that one woman's courage can send tearing through an entire community. -- Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
In The Good
The story of a woman's love, sacrifice, and bravery to save a small, wounded boy, Donna VanLiere has faithfully re-created the South of the 1950s, in both the innocence of the time and its evil. It's a beautiful story. --Kathleen Kent, bestselling author of The Heretic's Daughter
The Good Dream is a great story of people saving each other in the unlikeliest ways. A heartwarming winner of a book. -- Jenna Blum, bestselling author of The Stormchasers
Both heartrending and redemptive, The Good Dream imagines the profound power that love holds to change a life. --- Katherine Howe, bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Donna VanLiere has created a marvelous character in Ivorie of Morgan Hill, Tennessee. Hers is a compelling story of a young woman who must choose between her dreams and saving a boy she is told is forever damaged. Her struggle will intrigue you, entertain you, and will make you think important thoughts. That's about as much as we can ask a novel to do. - Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys/October Sky and The Keeper's Son.
Written with all the gumption of its Tennessee characters, The Good Dream is a great story of people saving each other in the unlikeliest ways. A heartwarming winner of a book. -- Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers
Donna VanLiere has woven an intoxicating Southern gothic tale of solitary Ivorie Walker, a capable young woman who must confront the terrible secrets that lie below the placid surface of life in the 1950s Tennessee countryside. At times both heartrending and redemptive, The Good Dream imagines the profound power that love holds to change a life, while tracing the reverberations that one woman's courage can send tearing through an entire community. -- Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
In The Good Dream, Donna VanLiere has created a heartwarming story of redemption and has shown the world that she's not just for Christmas anymore. --Richard Paul Evans, #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box, Lost December, and Miles to Go
The Good Dream snares the reader right from the start. DonnaVanLiere's pitch perfect voice captures all the country charm and mystery of a long-ago time and place with its many acts of kindness and courage, as well as its secrets. - Mary McGarry Morris, New York Times bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time
The story of a woman's love, sacrifice, and bravery to save a small, wounded boy, Donna VanLiere has faithfully re-created the South of the 1950s, in both the innocence of the time and its evil. It's a beautiful story. Kathleen Kent, bestselling author of The Heretic's Daughter
The Good Dream is a great story of people saving each other in the unlikeliest ways. A heartwarming winner of a book. Jenna Blum, bestselling author of The Stormchasers
Both heartrending and redemptive, The Good Dream imagines the profound power that love holds to change a life. Katherine Howe, bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Donna VanLiere has created a marvelous character in Ivorie of Morgan Hill, Tennessee. Hers is a compelling story of a young woman who must choose between her dreams and saving a boy she is told is forever damaged. Her struggle will intrigue you, entertain you, and will make you think important thoughts. That's about as much as we can ask a novel to do. Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys/October Sky and The Keeper's Son
Written with all the gumption of its Tennessee characters, The Good Dream is a great story of people saving each other in the unlikeliest ways. A heartwarming winner of a book. Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers
Donna VanLiere has woven an intoxicating Southern gothic tale of solitary Ivorie Walker, a capable young woman who must confront the terrible secrets that lie below the placid surface of life in the 1950s Tennessee countryside. At times both heartrending and redemptive, The Good Dream imagines the profound power that love holds to change a life, while tracing the reverberations that one woman's courage can send tearing through an entire community. Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
In The Good Dream, Donna VanLiere has created a heartwarming story of redemption and has shown the world that she's not just for Christmas anymore. Richard Paul Evans, #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box, Lost December, and Miles to Go
The Good Dream snares the reader right from the start. DonnaVanLiere's pitch perfect voice captures all the country charm and mystery of a long-ago time and place with its many acts of kindness and courage, as well as its secrets. Mary McGarry Morris, New York Times bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time
The story of a woman's love, sacrifice, and bravery to save a small, wounded boy, Donna VanLiere has faithfully re-created the South of the 1950s, in both the innocence of the time and its evil. It's a beautiful story. --Kathleen Kent, bestselling author of The Heretic's Daughter
The Good Dream is a great story of people saving each other in the unlikeliest ways. A heartwarming winner of a book. --Jenna Blum, bestselling author of The Stormchasers
Both heartrending and redemptive, The Good Dream imagines the profound power that love holds to change a life. --Katherine Howe, bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Donna VanLiere has created a marvelous character in Ivorie of Morgan Hill, Tennessee. Hers is a compelling story of a young woman who must choose between her dreams and saving a boy she is told is forever damaged. Her struggle will intrigue you, entertain you, and will make you think important thoughts. That's about as much as we can ask a novel to do. --Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys/October Sky and The Keeper's Son
Written with all the gumption of its Tennessee characters, The Good Dream is a great story of people saving each other in the unlikeliest ways. A heartwarming winner of a book. --Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers
Donna VanLiere has woven an intoxicating Southern gothic tale of solitary Ivorie Walker, a capable young woman who must confront the terrible secrets that lie below the placid surface of life in the 1950s Tennessee countryside. At times both heartrending and redemptive, The Good Dream imagines the profound power that love holds to change a life, while tracing the reverberations that one woman's courage can send tearing through an entire community. --Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
In The Good Dream, Donna VanLiere has created a heartwarming story of redemption and has shown the world that she's not just for Christmas anymore. --Richard Paul Evans, #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box, Lost December, and Miles to Go
The Good Dream snares the reader right from the start. DonnaVanLiere's pitch perfect voice captures all the country charm and mystery of a long-ago time and place with its many acts of kindness and courage, as well as its secrets. --Mary McGarry Morris, New York Times bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time
Donna VanLiere is The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Finding Grace, The Angels of Morgan Hill and seven Christmas books, including the perennial favorites The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Hope. She travels as a speaker and lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband and three children.
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