Up Island (54 page)

—Detroit News/Free Press

“Siddons is unerring in her portrayal of the Southern Betrayed Wife and her plight…[and] makes us read on and on.”

—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“If you’ve ever lived in the South, Anne Rivers Siddons’s latest book will take you home again.”

—USA Today

“An emotionally truthful, satisfying story…. Siddons creates convincing and sympathetic characters.”

—Orlando Sentinel

“Siddons’s way of delving into a character’s psyche is deeply satisfying.”

—Denver Post

“Heartrending…. Old and new Siddons readers will undoubtedly delight in Molly’s charisma and humor and admire her willingness to create a new family and life.”

—Southern Living

“Trying to pick a favorite Anne Rivers Siddons novel is like trying to choose between spring fever and autumn crispness, but that’s a pleasant quandry for readers: Her books just keep getting better.”

—State (Columbia, S.C.)

“[Siddons’s] engaging characters find their destinies in a suspenseful story.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Particularly well told…. Take this book on your vacation this summer. It’s a perfect beach read.”

—Florida Times-Union

“[Siddons writes in] gifted prose…. Rich characters and their lives intertwine with [Molly’s] forever. They have pain, all have complications, all are injured. You will feel their pain and their love with its complications.”

—Rocky Mountain News

“Anne Rivers Siddons’s fans, rejoice: the Atlanta author not only has a book out but it’s one of her best…. One of the South’s master storytellers.”

—Standard (Aikan, S.C.)

“Get ready for a treat…. Every bit as good (and maybe better than)
Colony,
her newest contribution to the literary world helps define the modern family…. For Anne Rivers Siddons fans who have been waiting for another novel that lives up to Siddons’s reputation,
Up Island
is it.”

—Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, S.C.)
Credits

Cover design and illustration © 1997 Greg Harlin/Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc.

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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