Anne Rivers Siddons

As she waits for her granddaughter to arrive at the summer colony, Retreat, Maude Chambliss reminisces about her fruitful life

An interior decorator comes to terms with herself at a college reunion on the Outer Banks of North Carolina

A woman caretaker attempts to heal the divisions with her daughter and sister and finds love with an earthquake scientist in the California mountains

Four friends who used to meet for an annual summer beach vacation drift apart after one of their group tragically dies but reconvene years later.

Thayer Wentworth marries an Irish professor and moves into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta a short distance away from the summer camp she attended as a child, where she begins to question whether her husband is the man she thought she knew

Catherine, suffering a traumatic event as a child, makes an effort to come out of her cloistered shell to attend a wedding in Italy

The chronicle of wealthy Atlanta gentry ruined by their privilege as expressed in the love and hate relationship between a woman and her cousin

The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by a mysterious evil, and the couple watches in horror as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the same sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves

A senior coed at an Alabama university comes of age as the civil rights revolution begins

Anne Rivers Siddons invites you into her home and her heart In this collection of heartfelt and involving vignettes, Anne Rivers Siddons--the beloved bestselling author of Downtown, Hill Towns, and Colony--offers a stirring and insightful look at our everyday world and how one woman has chosen to live in it. Moving from memories of her gentle grandfather to her uncanny ability to attract stray animals, Siddons' intimate stories of her family are graced...