Her joyous remembrance of her first decade on an enchanted islandAnd of those cherished friends who inspired her bestselling trilogy, Lighthouse, New Moon Rising, and Beloved Invader. After only a few golden hours on Georgias St. Simons Island, Eugenia Price longed to make it her home. Even though she loved her old town house in Chicago, and her busy writing and lecturing schedule, the shadowstreaked, lightfilled place had cast its spell and would not let her go. The reader, too, will feel the Islands magic as Genie describes her odyssey with her friend Joyce Blackburn from the urban North to Southern smalltown community life and peace.With deep affection and humor she shares her many friendshipswith "the first six," the elderly folk who gave her their love, their stories, and their memories so that she could write her novels of St. Simons with her beloved editor, Tay Hohoff, who encouraged and goaded her and with all the other people who helped with her writing and with the building of her Island home in the midst of the "dear dark woods."Although she had been uncertain at first of her welcome to St. Simons, she later experienced the rare privilege of having the Island name a day in her honor.These intimate pages are also filled with Genies quiet faith in God and her eternal gratitude for His grace in sending her to St. Simons. She calls her book a memoir, but it is more than that. It is a thanksgiving celebration of life and of its surprising goodness even in the midst...

Binding: Paperback;238 pages; Publisher: Turner Publishing Company - IPS; Classification: BG; Weight: 427.99 g; Dimensions: 215 x 139

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