Author: rebeccawells
“A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution“A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.”—Washington Post“Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it … female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells.”—Richmond Times-DispatchThe incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller—a book that reigned at the top of the list for an remarkable sixty-eight weeks—Rebecca Wells’s Divine Secrets of…
“Rarely do you find a first novel of such power. The author’s strange, arresting combination of colloquialism and poetry flows from her eight characters with a force so strong you savor each sentence.” — Southern LivingThe companion novel to Rebecca Wells’s celebrated Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, … cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda—a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family—leads us into her mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial…
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: After her idyllic childhood ends in tragedy, Calla Lily looks for a fresh start in New Orleans. “Wells weaves more of the magic that made her a bestseller” (Publishers Weekly).