Books: Low Country

Low Country
By Anne Rivers Siddons
Audiobook Performed by Debra Monk
1998

I did not think I was going to enjoy this book when it began, but after a while I discovered I wanted to hear how it ended.

So after that slow start, things picked up. Caroline Venable is an artist who owns an island off South Carolina. Her husband is a wealthy plantation owner. They have one son, Carter, and a deceased daughter, Kylie.

Caroline has never gotten over her daughter's accidental death. She runs away to "her" island all the time. She drinks and paints. She also tends to some wild ponies and a black settlement called "Daybreak". This settlement is on her property but the folks have lived there for over 100 years and she doesn't ever plan to uproot them.

Then she learns her husband thinks otherwise. In order to save his fortune, he wants to turn her island into a resort.

Caroline then sets out to save what has become precious to her.

It's a tender story. I liked it.

3.25 stars