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"Beth Webb Hart stocks her knowledge [of the lowcountry] withskill, knowledge, and beauty." - Pat Conroy, writer of ThePrince of TidesWhen a business venture will go sour, Charleston blue-bloodsBilly and Dee DeLoach uproot their family and move into the caretaker's cottageon what was once the family plantation estate on Edisto Island. While the restof her family falls to portions, DeVeaux battles to maintain them through herreluctant help and her tenacious hope.Before the individual bankruptcy, the family acquired a graceful home in ahistoric Charleston community. Country night clubs, cotillions, years as a child friends,and a close-knit church group. Now they're living in a run-down cottage on anisland estate that is no more in the family. DeVeaux has a restaurant job, acantankerous old vehicle, and mud on almost everything.But something is using DeVeaux down. It isn't living onthe island, which is in fact kind of interesting. And it's really not missing her oldfriends, who have developed an annoying fixation on young boys. What really bothersDeVeaux is the fact being "ruined" has transformed her daddy into an ill-temperedjerk, and her mother just tiptoes around him. If the nice Lord has an idea forsaving them, now might be considered a good time to start.A gritty but soft drawl of a story, Sophistication at Low Tide is atender and evocative portrait of a young female embracing womanhood. With southernsociety as her backdrop, Beth Webb Hart paints for all of us a hard-luck familyscrabbling to find its center again. It really is a testimony to the tiny miracles oflove and loyalty--the products of sophistication that have the ability to keep us all afloat, even atour most affordable ebb."a lovely, gifted article writer."-Publishers Weekly
