King's Oak - Hardcover

Siddons, Anne Rivers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060162481 ISBN 13: 9780060162481

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1990

Synopsis

A woman flees a disastrous marriage to settle in a small, aristocratic town and falls in live with a young teacher determined to protect the surrounding wilderness from a nearby nuclear plant

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Review:

"Compulsively readable". -- Washington Post

"Ms. Siddons uses brilliant characterization, riveting suspense and a touch of myth to create a truly remarkable novel."--"Richmond Times-Dispatch""A multilayered, multifaced novel that defies you to put it down."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

From the Back Cover:

Leaving behind a disastrous marriage, Diana, "Andy", Calhoun moves to the small town of Pemberton, Georgia, "in search of banality". What she discovers, though, is not serenity, but Tom Dabney, a passionate and magical man.

An exuberant poet who worships the wilderness surrounding Pemberton, Tom is everything Andy doesn't need in her life right now. But despite warnings from friends, Andy is soon deeply immersed in Tom's life and his world . . . a world he will do anything to protect. When Tom declares war on the enemy poisoning his woods, it becomes clear that Andy must choose between her life with Tom and the one she left behind -- if Pemberton society will take her back.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0060162481
• ISBN 13: 9780060162481
• Binding: Hardcover