The Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons

But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the Colony, as she does the people who share it with her.

She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer Colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband’s aristocratic family, she is a nineteen year old bride fresh from South Carolina’s Low Country. Until she commits a single act of defiance and courage that forever alters the way others think of her, and how Maggie thinks of herself.Īn unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition. Even among this privileged group, pretty, popular Kappa sister Maggie Deloach is unquestionably one of the elite… At Kappa House, the sorority sisters talk of who has pinned whom, and whether they can sneak past their housemother so they can party at an out of town bar.

But at little Randolph University, sweltering in the summer heat, life remains dreamily the same. In Tuscaloosa, outrage surrounds the entrance of the state university’s first black student.

In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King has organized a bus boycott. Her classic novel Heartbreak Hotel, praised as ‘anything but nostalgic’ by The New York Times, excels with an insightful, troubling tale of the coming of age of a privileged young Southern woman during the turbulent Civil Rights era. Anne Rivers Siddons ‘cannot be surpassed in evoking a kind of life peculiar to the South,’ says Publishers Weekly.

The Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons