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Title	:	The Peach Keeper
Author	:	Sarah Addison Allen
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	US
Pages	:	Pages: 273 pages
Published	:	March 22nd 2011 by Bantam (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Fiction. Magical Realism. Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Fantasy. Contemporary. Mystery

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.

It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.

But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it.

For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.

Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.

Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times and bad, from one generation to the next—endure forever.

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Original Title:	The Peach Keeper
ISBN:	0553807226 (ISBN13: 9780553807226)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Claire Waverley, Willa Jackson, Paxton Osgood, Colin Osgood, Sebastian Rogers, Rachel, Georgie Jackson, Agatha Osgood, Tucker Devlin
Setting:	North Carolina,2011(United States) Wall of Water, North Carolina(United States)
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011)

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Summer A Thon: Read a book while enjoying a summer-y drinkI read this book while drinking lemonade, iced coffee, and a strawberry smoothie. This book surprised me. I didn't know what to expect going in, the synopsis made it sound like a Gothic mystery which it was. But it also contained some magical realism, which is usually a huge turn off for me but I didn't mind it this time. Magical realism usually pulls me out of the story but this is the rare book that was actually helped by having a

I really disliked this book. That said, I really enjoyed Addison Allen's other titles, but this one read too chick-lit-ish for me. I didn't feel like Colin, Paxton, or Willa were as interesting as her usual characters, nor did I feel like their problems were very difficult or compelling. I mean, Colin felt like his youth was rough because his friends considered him to be tightly wound? How horrible. And what were Paxton's reasons for staying in her parents' house so long? I didn't feel like we

Another magical masterpiece by Sarah Addison Allen! This Southern gothic mystery set in the beautiful yet mystical Walls of Water, a fictional small town in North Carolina. It is the perfect setting with its lush greenery and fog that can be captured in a jar for this magical realism novel filled with the paranormal events after the body of Tucker Devlin is unearthed during the renovation of the Blue Ridge Madam, the former home of Georgie Jackson, the grandmother of Willa one of the main

The unadorned Walls of Water, North Carolina, will certainly be broached a tad by the expected events everyone could see coming by page 20! I had to close my eyes because it was difficult to endure what was endlessly rolling out before me. Really. I had to close my eyes! The lack of any tension or excitement in the plot of 'The Peach Keeper' was exceptionally stressful. But I pushed on, bringing it, climbing the Walls, diving into the Waters.Despite my best effort, I was a drifting a bit all at

This wasn't terrible, but it lacks that spark of magic Allen's readers have grown to love. Late in the book there's a chapter called "The Joker, the Stick Man, the Princess, and the Freak." That should have been the book's title. There's not really anything about "peach keeping" in the story except one little thing near the end that feels like it was tossed in to justify the title. The story's about four thirty-year-olds who finally come to terms with high school pettiness and decide to get on

Cute, entertaining, fast read. Perfect for when you want to read- but brainpower may be feeling a little sluggish. (stressed reading maybe???) I liked it okay. It wasn't necessarily great, but it wasn't bad either. Pros: light hearted, quick read, easy characters, fun bits of history for the family. The author has her light touch of magical elements that are in her other books. It's true to Sarah Addison Allen and her style. It's entertaining... like a Hallmark holiday movie. if you're in the

Well, I have officially read all of Ms. Allen's novels and I must admit to being a wee bit sad there are no more left to read. Her stories have a special kind of magic to them, a combination of bitter and sweet, dark and light that is done so seamlessly I am in awe of her. While her books are not perfection (but honestly, what book is truly perfection?) the way they make me feel when I read them takes my breath away. I long to live in the world she's created, to eat flowers that will make me