Once in a while, a great book comes along – and this is it! From its compelling characters, to the tumultuous backdrop, this family saga kept me enthralled to the very end. Was like the life revealed in The Handsome Road.' -The New York Times But noĭoubt life in a small river town in Louisiana during the years 1859-1885 That historians will alter some of the details of her picture. To interpret the South and its past in critical terms. 'Miss Bristow belongs among those Southern novelists who are trying

'A grand job of storytelling, a story of enthralling swiftness.' -The New York Times on Deep Summer 'Historical romance with all the thrills a vivid senseof the historical personages and events of the time.' -The New York Herald Tribune on Celia Garth The‘you-are-thereness' is complete.' -The Christian Science Monitor on Celia Garth Historically authentic, the characterizations rigorous, well formed andĭefinite. 'Absorbing and swift-paced, well written. The kind ofstory that keeps readers tingling.' -The Chicago Tribune on Celia Garth 'An exciting tale of love and war in the tradition of Gone with the Wind. 'This absorbing story giving a thrilling picture of the foundation on which our West was built is heartily recommended.' -Library Journal 'Miss Bristow has the true gift of storytelling.' -The Chicago Tribune on Jubilee Trail This is the first novel in Gwen Bristow’s Plantation Trilogy, which also includes The Handsome Road and This Side of Glory. They strive to build an empire for future generations. Their stormy marriage and the challenges of the American Revolution as Thousand acres of untamed jungle, overrun with jaguars, Indians, and Thief-and the first thing he steals is Judith’s heart.

Wilderness, Judith meets Philip Larne, an adventurer who travels in theįinest clothes Judith has ever seen. Puritan New Englander, is granted a parcel of land in far-off Louisiana.Īs the family ventures down the Mississippi to make a new home in the Settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm,Īrmy during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy’s father, a In this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who Bristow does “a grand job of storytelling” (the New York Times)

Deep Summer by Gwen Bristow