Book Overview
While sitting in her 150-year-old cabin in the mountains of North Carolina at the beginning of the Depression, Collie Wright sees furtive figures emerging from the woods on a chilly, near-winter evening. The figures turn out to be clockmaker Wayland Jackson, a widower on his way to Tennessee to seek work, and his 12-year-old daughter, Paula. Wayland's truck has broken down, and the two have lost their way. Collie allows them to stay the night, and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0060149302
ISBN13:9780060149307
Release Date:January 1982
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Customer Reviews
1 rating
A great novel that should be better known!
Published by gmcm , 4 months ago
Ehle's Appalachian novels are wonderful. The Winter People is a gripping story of family and loyalty and place that I can't begin to summarize. This is on my shelf of my all-time favorite novels.
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