
Folly Beach
A Lowcountry Tale
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · December 27, 2011
“Dottie Frank’s books are sexy and hilarious.
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- Who it’s for
- A warm, layered family story where loss, acceptance, and love make room for a future.
- Themes
- Loss and acceptance, Family and love
- Genres
- Southern Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Family Life
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“Dottie Frank’s books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property.” —Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad The incomparable Dorothea Benton Frank is back with her latest Lowcountry Novel, Folly Beach.
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As she has with Lowcountry Summer, Return to Sullivans Island, Land of Mango Sunsets, and so many other delightful literal excursions to this magical Southern locale, the perennial New York Times bestselling author enchants readers with a heart-warming tale of loss, acceptance, family, and love—as a woman returns to the past to find her future. Folly Beach is a constant delight from “a masterful storyteller” (Booklist) who has already secured her place alongside Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, Rebecca Wells, Barbara Delinsky and other contemporary queens of bestselling women’s fiction.
Lowcountry Ties
A warm, layered family story where loss, acceptance, and love make room for a future.
Come here for
- A return to the past in search of what comes next
- Family, love, and loss in a Lowcountry setting
Expect
- Heart-warming storytelling with a serious undercurrent
- An inviting, sustained read about acceptance and change
Where it sits
| Southern Fiction | 63% |
|---|---|
| Contemporary Romance | 41% |
| Family Life | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Plays by Women
- Historical Fiction
- Funny Fiction
- Contemporary Romance
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- New Adult Romance
- Romantic Comedy
- American Historical Romance
- Later-Life Romance
- Authors
- Dorothea Benton Frank
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- December 27, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Loss and acceptance · Family and love
- Reading lane
- Plays by Women