Return to Sullivans Island

By Dorothea Benton Frank

“Her books are humorous, attractive, and customarily damp with seawater.”

—Pat Conroy, writer of The Prince of Tides

 

In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted panorama of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made recognized in her loved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island. Frank makes a speciality of the following iteration of Hamiltons and Hayes, incomes excessive compliment from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which writes, “Frank brings to bright lifestyles the wealthy panorama and its unpretentious folks….A reader desire in simple terms shut her eyes for a second to think that thick-sticky warmth, odor the wild salt marshes.” should you get pleasure from getting misplaced within the works of Anne Rivers Siddons, Rebecca Wells, and Pat Conroy—novels brimming with surroundings and robust Southern charm—you are going to love Dotty Frank’s Return to Sullivans Island.

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