Bøger af C H Lawler

1936, Shreveport, LouisianaPretty young New Yorker Miriam Levenson finds herself here employed in the only job she can get - interviewing the elderly for the Roosevelt Administration's Federal Writers Project. Among the people she meets are an aging Civil War hero, a French Muralist and his common-law wife, and a ninety-five-year-old Irish immigrant named Bridget Fenerty, a woman who has known tragedy and refused to buckle under it. Winter turns to spring, and Miriam finds there are people in this town who have secrets. And as she is followed by a mysterious man in a black Cadillac, Miriam finds that she, too, has a secret.

In 1925, on Prytania Street in New Orleans, an old man sets about recording his memories of the days when he was a young man working in St. Matthew Parish, Louisiana. Poor health has taken his ability to speak, and there are people in his house whom he doesn't recognize, including "the woman downstairs who is not the hired girl" and "the Spaniard." But his memory of sixty years before is still sharp, and he can still write, and as he does, it becomes clear that this is more than a recollection of happy times. It is the confession of a youth filled with atrocities. Living Among the Dead is a story of betrayal, regret, and the thirst for forgiveness, set in the wake of the Civil War.

Louisiana, 1965, and an unlikely, inevitable couple. Sammy Teague and Betsy Duplechain have grown up right next door to each other, but in different worlds, with expectations and circumstances that have always kept them separate. Now, as a powerful September hurricane bears down on the Louisiana coast, those worlds will come face to face. The choices they make will send them on an odyssey north and into the fall of 1965, as the brutal and envious sheriff Percy Parris pursues them. Along the way they meet an unusual and eclectic series of people who help them become more than what they were. As fall turns to winter, their lives will change forever in the wake of a storm named Betsy. The Saints of Lost Things is a story of love, hope, and perseverance, and envy and bitterness. And the remarkable power of kindness.

She was a rather simple girl, really. Innocent and simple.Golden-haired Alice Lamb was also an only child who always dreamed of being part of a large family. In 1870, she and her Papa, an Anglican vicar, emigrated from England to pastor a church in Louisiana. She faithfully kept a diary, telling it everything and calling it her 'little confidant.' In it, she records the bewildering events that set her on a course toward both passion and tragedy.On a winter morning in 1982, over a hundred years after her death, the man she has haunted since his boyhood finds Alice's diary hidden away in a safe. In it is the truth which will both set him free from his shameful past and on a course toward a different tragedy.