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The Garden Angel (St. Martin's Press/Picador): An obituary writer schemes to hold onto her dilapidated, ancestral home and in the process befriends an Emily Dickinson-obsessed agoraphobic stuck in the suburbs. Think "Grey Gardens" meets "Fried Green Tomatoes."
Strong storytelling, comic touches, prickly family dynamics and the magical power of nature. A once-grand heirloom garden is covertly rescued, revealing a divided family’s secret lives of turmoil and yearning. From St. Martin's Press in May.
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- I'm the author of THE GARDEN ANGEL (St. Martin's Press/Picador) and SECRET KEEPERS (St. Martin's Press/paperback from Picador in May 2010). I am founder and director of the Writing Room, a program for writers in South Carolina. Visit www.mindyfriddle.com to read excerpts from my novels, interviews with authors, and book reviews. Find me onFacebook. Follow me on Twitter.
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The Garden Angel (St. Martin's Press/Picador): An obituary writer schemes to hold onto her dilapidated, ancestral home and in the process befriends an Emily Dickinson-obsessed agoraphobic stuck in the suburbs. Think "Grey Gardens" meets "Fried Green Tomatoes."
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Strong storytelling, comic touches, prickly family dynamics and the magical power of nature. A once-grand heirloom garden is covertly rescued, revealing a divided family’s secret lives of turmoil and yearning. From St. Martin's Press in May.
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