I’ve talked on several occasions about my love for Carole Lanham’s “The Whisper Jar” and my eagerness to read her debut novel, “The Reading Lessons”. Finally the time
to dig into the pages of “The Reading Lessons” has come, Carole Lanham’s novel
was released on January, 9th by Immortal Ink Publishing and I have
already started nibbling between its covers. If you don’t have a copy of Carole
Lanham’s novel yet or if you are not already convinced to buy one you can enter
in a Goodreads giveaway for a chance to win one of the four trade paperback
editions of “The Reading Lessons” offered as prize there. The giveaway ends on
February, 14th and is open to the residents of United States, United
Kingdom, Australia and Canada and you can follow this link to enter into the
competition. Good luck to all!
Mississippi 1920: Nine year
old servant, Hadley Crump, finds himself drawn into a secret world when he is
invited to join wealthy Lucinda Browning’s dirty book club. No one suspects
that the bi-racial son of the cook is anything more to Lucinda than a charitable
obligation, but behind closed doors, O! she doth teach the torches to burn
bright. What begins as a breathless investigation into the more juicy parts of
literature quickly becomes a consuming and life-long habit for two people who
would not otherwise be left alone together. As lynchings erupt across the South
and the serving staff is slowly cut to make way for new mechanical household
conveniences, Hadley begins to understand how dangerous and precarious his
situation is.
The Reading Lessons follows
the lives of two people born into a world that is unforgiving as a Hangman’s
knot. Divided by skin color and joined by books, Hadley and Lucinda are forced
to come together in the only place that will allow it, a land of printed words
and dark secrets.
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