We're happy to be hosting Kim Boykin and her A PEACH OF A PAIR RELEASE DAY BLITZ today!
About the Book:
Title: A Peach of a Pair
Author: Kim Boykin
Publisher: Penguin Random House/Berkley Books
Pages:304
Genre:Southern Women's Fiction
Author: Kim Boykin
Publisher: Penguin Random House/Berkley Books
Pages:304
Genre:Southern Women's Fiction
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"Palmetto Moon" inspired "The Huffington
Post" to rave, It is always nice to discover a new talented author and Kim
Boykin is quite a find. Now, she delivers a novel of a woman picking up the
pieces of her life with the help of two spirited, elderly sisters in South
Carolina.
April, 1953. Nettie Gilbert has cherished her time studying
to be a music teacher at Columbia College
in South Carolina, but as
graduation approaches, she can t wait to return to her family and her childhood
sweetheart, Brooks in Alabama.
But just days before her senior recital, she gets a letter from her mama
telling her that Brooks is getting married . . . to her own sister.
Devastated, Nettie drops out of school and takes a job as
live-in help for two old-maid sisters, Emily and Lurleen Eldridge. Emily is
fiercely protective of the ailing Lurleen, but their sisterhood has weathered
many storms. And as Nettie learns more about their lives on a trip to see a
faith healer halfway across the country, she ll discover that love and
forgiveness will one day lead her home.
About the Author:
Kim Boykin
was raised in her South Carolina home with
two girly sisters and great parents. She had a happy, boring childhood, which
sucks if you’re a writer because you have to create your own crazy. PLUS after
you’re published and you’re being interviewed, it’s very appealing when the
author actually lived in Crazy Town or somewhere
in the general vicinity.
Almost
everything she learned about writing, she learned from her grandpa, an oral
storyteller, who was a master teacher of pacing and sensory detail. He held
court under an old mimosa tree on the family farm, and people used to come from
all around to hear him tell stories about growing up in rural Georgia and share
his unique take on the world.
As a stay-at-home
mom, Kim started writing, grabbing snip-its of time in the car rider line or on
the bleachers at swim practice. After her kids left the nest, she started
submitting her work, sold her first novel at 53, and has been writing like
crazy ever since.
Thanks to the
lessons she learned under that mimosa tree, her books are well reviewed and,
according to RT Book Reviews, feel like they’re being told across a kitchen
table. She is the author of A Peach of a Pair, Palmetto Moon and The
Wisdom of Hair from Berkley/NAL/Penguin; Flirting with Forever, She’s
the One, Just in Time for Christmas, Steal Me, Cowboy and Sweet Home
Carolina from Tule. While her heart is always in the Lowcountry of South
Carolina, she lives in Charlotte and has a
heart for hairstylist, librarians, and book junkies like herself.
Her
latest book is the southern women’s fiction, A Peach of a Pair.
Visit
her website at http://kimboykin.com.