VONCILLE SHIPLEY
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Land of Sun and Flowers ISBN 0-595-30705-1
Comments from Readers:
Ardmore, OK
Have finished both books and loved them. Sally M. Gray, Author Territory Town-The Ardmore Story
Northfield, OH
I’m so looking forward to reading your sequel Land of Sun and Flowers.
Waleska, GA
Enjoyed This Raw, Red Land. Am enclosing an order for Land of Sun and Flowers.
Clovis, NM
I so enjoyed your two books...look forward to your [new] books....Let me know when they are out.
Sulphur, OK
I really cared about this family and the hardships both emotional and physical they lived through.
Keller, TX
I want to read Land of Sun and Flowers. (Check enclosed.)
Tulsa, OK
I just finished Land of Sun and Flowers. It was a wonderful, well-written story and may even surpass the first one. You tied up all the loose ends beautifully.
Houston, TX
Been waiting for this book. Thank you.
Konawa, OK
I especially enjoyed how you captured the true life and language of our early pioneering families. It reminded me of sitting and listening to my Dad's family tell their stories of their early days.
Ardmore, OK
Have finished both books and loved them. Sally M. Gray, Author Territory Town-The Ardmore Story
Northfield, OH
I’m so looking forward to reading your sequel Land of Sun and Flowers.
Waleska, GA
Enjoyed This Raw, Red Land. Am enclosing an order for Land of Sun and Flowers.
Clovis, NM
I so enjoyed your two books...look forward to your [new] books....Let me know when they are out.
Sulphur, OK
I really cared about this family and the hardships both emotional and physical they lived through.
Keller, TX
I want to read Land of Sun and Flowers. (Check enclosed.)
Tulsa, OK
I just finished Land of Sun and Flowers. It was a wonderful, well-written story and may even surpass the first one. You tied up all the loose ends beautifully.
Houston, TX
Been waiting for this book. Thank you.
Konawa, OK
I especially enjoyed how you captured the true life and language of our early pioneering families. It reminded me of sitting and listening to my Dad's family tell their stories of their early days.
Overbrook KS
I have been meaning tell you how much I have enjoyed your first 2 novels! I read them myself and am now reading the second one to my daughter!! She is really enjoying them.
After reading Land of Sun & Flowers, it made me want to know a whole lot more about the families!!!!!
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Follow the Conover family from 1908 through 1919 as they and their neighbors experience birth, death, natural disasters, and deprivation as well as good fortune. Their pioneering spirit and hospitality guide them to bury their bitterness and assist others in dire need. As Lillie says, “When people have no place else to go, we have to take them in.”
Ben’s debts and loss of income force him to postpone his dreams for the future as he becomes the mainstay of his family. His love for Esther sustains him when she agrees to walk out with him even though he realizes she does not feel the same about him.
Jed must live with his hurry-up marriage and try to forget Esther but his love for his children and expression of his artistic abilities make life bearable. Esther tries to put her heartache behind her and make a good life for herself until the night she must face her suppressed feelings for Jed and make decisions that can change her whole life—and Jed’s and Ben’s.
Ben’s debts and loss of income force him to postpone his dreams for the future as he becomes the mainstay of his family. His love for Esther sustains him when she agrees to walk out with him even though he realizes she does not feel the same about him.
Jed must live with his hurry-up marriage and try to forget Esther but his love for his children and expression of his artistic abilities make life bearable. Esther tries to put her heartache behind her and make a good life for herself until the night she must face her suppressed feelings for Jed and make decisions that can change her whole life—and Jed’s and Ben’s.
Reviews
Like a perfectly tuned time machine set to take its travelers back to the days of the early 20th century pioneers,...Shipley has crafted a second and wonderfully expressive family saga in her new novel, Land of Sun and Flowers. Richly told and with an amazingly descriptive voice…, filled with wonderful dialogue and paints a vivid portrait of life in…early Oklahoma. Eric Dabney, The Oklahoman
Voncille Shipley’s first novel, This Raw, Red Land was selected as a 2004 finalist for an Oklahoma Book Award. As promised, Shipley is back with the sequel, Land of Sun and Flowers. She strokes her story on paper as deftly as an artist applies paint to a canvas....a satisfying and surprising conclusion.
Esther’s inner conflicts and how she handles her life’s confusions make for a love story as real as any written about modern-day heroines. Patricia Ann Jones, Tulsa World
Like a perfectly tuned time machine set to take its travelers back to the days of the early 20th century pioneers,...Shipley has crafted a second and wonderfully expressive family saga in her new novel, Land of Sun and Flowers. Richly told and with an amazingly descriptive voice…, filled with wonderful dialogue and paints a vivid portrait of life in…early Oklahoma. Eric Dabney, The Oklahoman
Voncille Shipley’s first novel, This Raw, Red Land was selected as a 2004 finalist for an Oklahoma Book Award. As promised, Shipley is back with the sequel, Land of Sun and Flowers. She strokes her story on paper as deftly as an artist applies paint to a canvas....a satisfying and surprising conclusion.
Esther’s inner conflicts and how she handles her life’s confusions make for a love story as real as any written about modern-day heroines. Patricia Ann Jones, Tulsa World
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