Kate Forbes
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compnay
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
543 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Addie Cowherd dreamt of being a novelist and offering readers the escape that books gave her during her tragic childhood. But it's the Great Depression, and when her adoptive father loses his job, Addie is forced to leave college and take the only employment she can find: delivering books on horseback to poor coal mining families in the hills of Kentucky. The community of Boone's Hollow is suspicious of outsiders and steeped in superstitions that...