My Old True Love (Paperback)

from glade1

This book has been sitting on my to-be-read shelf for almost 10 years! Finally took it down and read it, and enjoyed it very much. It is set in my home state of NC during the Civil War era and tells the story of one mountain family and its loves and losses. Well-written, "true" dialect, and inter...

from glade1

This book has been sitting on my to-be-read shelf for almost 10 years! Finally took it down and read it, and enjoyed it very much. It is set in my home state of NC during the Civil War era and tells the story of one mountain family and its loves and losses. Well-written, "true" dialect, and inter...

from dissed1

My Old True Love, by Sheila Kay Adams, is an old-fashioned story from the mountains of North Carolina. I thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere, characterizations and dialect Ms. Adams employed to tell her story of love, life and redemption. And as it turns out, love is not only for our own lovers, bu...

from cataylor

Arty's voice rings as clear as the clean mountain air as she tells the story of her life and her nephew Larkin Stanton in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina in the mid 1800s. Arty's aunt dies in childbirth and at the tender age of 8 years old, she becomes the nearest thing to a mother La...

from crazyreadergirl

An excellent, moving book. Not a dull moment. Always wanted to pick it back up after putting it down. Happy, and oh so sad. True to life, not glossy or sugar coated.