Winter Goldfinch

Product Description

This is a story of family secrets and the terrible toll the past charges the future. Also a story of the redeeming quality of love, it takes place in a small southern town which becomes a character in its own right as Wall's artistic eye sets the scene and lets her characters, with their fears, griefs and eccentricities imbue it with a fine sense of family and place. Lyrical and touching, it is a Southern novel of the best kind.

Review

"Winter Goldfinch is a Southern original. Jayne Davis Wall's first dance with the pen is heartbreakingly lyrical. Her characters are so perfectly flawed and so delicately human, closing the book becomes harder with each turn of the page. This is everything you could hope for in a first novel." Eugene L. Tinklepaugh --Washington Daily News

"Jayne Davis Wall explores the complicated relationships between a mother and her grown children in this gentle novel, deftly evoking the pace and cadence of life in this Eastern North Carolina setting." Penny Round, feature writer --The Pamlico News

"Jayne Davis Wall has written a wise and sensitive novel rooted in the South, with lyrical descriptions of nature, weather and place. The book moves back and forth in time, telling the story of an appealing, eccentric woman and her family. Exceptionally poignant are the relationships of the women in the family. The book explores what it is to be a mother, a daughter. Death, as well as life, is an important theme here, but in no way is this a novel of despair. The characters, intense in their feelings, sometimes ambivalent, often hurting, learn, change,and come together in the end with understanding, love and hope. In addition to creating memorable people, Ms. Wall creates memorable dogs. The dogs in this book are not like extras in a movie; they are an integral part of the story, individuals in their own right, part of what makes Winter Goldfinch such a very good read." --Susan Cohen, author

About the Author

Jayne Davis Wall, a painter and poet, paints and writes in Eastern North Carolina where she lives with her husband, Sam, and their many dogs and cats.