Becky 
      FROM ST. MARTIN'S PRESS IN JANUARY 2008!


    Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher

                                        by Lenore Hart


    It's 1910, and the renowned novelist Mark Twain has passed away -- gone with Halley's comet, just as he always said he would. Now Becky Thatcher would like to set the record straight: she was never the weeping little ninny that Twain made her out to be in his famous novel. Yes, she was Tom Sawyer's childhood sweetheart, but the real story of their love, and the terrible secret that tore them apart, never quite made it into Twain's books. And Becky had her reasons for rejecting Tom, and marrying his cousin Sid . . . as all women have their reasons.
     Bold and brave beyond the expectations of her sex, in a time of war and westward expansion, this wildly conflicted wife and mother struggles to reconcile her fierce and         independent spirit with traditional Nineteenth-century expectations. She seeks fulfillment, passion, and a measure of independence. She's haunted by the lies she's told, and the men she's betrayed. Can she ever really forget the maddening, sweet-talking Tom Sawyer, or is theirs a love for ages -- and the storybooks?


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    416 pages -- $24.95
    ISBN 978-0312-37327-6


"In this old-fashioned, newfangled adventure story, Hart re-imagines and expands on Becky Thatcher . . . in an episodic style not so different from Twain's, she presents the "real-life"adventures of this tenacious and clever survivor. This is a hefty, vigorous, and engaging work with nothing dainty about it!"
              
                                                                                                                         -- Sheri Reynolds, The Rapture of Canaan and Firefly Cloak


"Lenore Hart writes a novel with the grace of a poet. Her command of time, place, and language is enviable.  Becky is a marvelous journey readers will so enjoy."

                                                                                                                         -- Steve Berry, The Amber Room and The Templar Legacy


"Richly imagined and meticulously researched, Lenore Hart's Becky takes the reader on a wild ride through times past and worlds gone.  As ever, Hart's ear for language is acute and her sense of place and time impressive."
                                                                                                                -- Janet Peery, The River Beyond the World and What the Thunder Said    

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