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``If Julie Cantrell isnt on your reading list, she should be.`` --Lisa Wingate, national bestselling author of Before We Were YoursWhen two estranged sisters reunite for their parents 50th anniversary, a family tragedy brings unexpected lessons of hope and healing amid the flowers of their mothers perennial garden.Eva--known to all as Lovey--grew up safe and secure in Oxford, MS, surrounded by a rich literary history and her mothers stunning flower gardens. But a shed fire, and the injuries that it caused, seemed to change everything . . . especially when her older sister, Bitsy, blamed Lovey for the irreparable damage.Bitsy became the cheerleader. The homecoming queen. The perfect Southern belle who could do no wrong. All the while, Lovey served as the family scapegoat, always bearing the brunt when Bitsy threw blame her way.At eighteen, suffocating in her sisters shadow, Lovey turned down a marriage proposal and fled to Arizona--a place as far from Mississippi as she could find.In time, she became a successful advertising executive and a weekend yoga instructor, carving a satisfying life for herself, free from Bitsys vicious lies. But now that shes turning 45, Lovey is feeling more alone than ever and questioning the choices that have led her here.When she gets a call from her father insisting that she come home three weeks early for her parents 50th anniversary, Lovey is at wits end. Shes about to close the biggest contract of her career, and theres a lot on the line. But despite the risks, her fathers words, ``Family First,`` draw her right back to the red-dirt roads of Mississippi.Lovey is welcomed home by a secret project--a memory garden her father has planned as an anniversary surprise for her mother. As she helps create this sacred space, Lovey begins to rediscover her roots, learning to live perennially in spite of lifes many trials and tragedies.Years ago, Lovey chose to leave her family and the South far behind. But now that shes returned, shes realizing things at home were not always what they seemed.``From the lush Mississippi setting and lyrical writing, to the flawed yet engaging characters, Julie Cantrells Perennials is an engrossing reading pleasure. I loved this story of a fractured family and a prodigal daughter, and the healing power and connections that tending gardens brings to their lives. Like an artist, the author uses a delicate brush to carefully illustrate the joys and pains of lifes growing seasons, and of learning how to surrender old hurts to find forgiveness. This is a book to read more than once.`` --Karen White, New York Times bestselling author``Family drama, small-town pressures, and lifes unexpected turns are all set within the charming parameters of a Southern perennial garden. Add the literary links to Faulkner and Welty, a soul-stirring romance, and Cantrells lyrical story-telling skills and youve got a heart-warming tale that is sure to outlast the seasons. Youll love Perennials `` --Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of Beach House for Rent``With languid prose and vivid description, Julie Cantrells novel unfolds as beautifully as one of her protagonists favorite flowers. Cantrell weaves moving and inspirational stories that make her one of todays most beloved storytellers. Perennials may be her most breathtaking yet.`` --Kristy Woodson Harvey, bestselling author of Slightly South of Simple
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