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From bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society.At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly alert to yearning and loss. Instead of be consumed by sadness, she has built a life about the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It really is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly that can be played in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It really is enough.And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a really grand plantation, who may have try to escape from her hectic Charleston debutante season to invest a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily reaches once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a robust enchantment of her own, which, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at an awful price.Poignant and emotionally compelling, Anne Rivers Siddons's Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry. With characters that linger long after you've turned the last page, this engaging tale is destined to become an instant classic.
