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Robert Hicks has been a leading member of the Nashville music industry for twenty years, as both a publisher and artist manager, working with such stars as Dolly Parton and Keith Richards. For twenty-five years Robert has been the driving force in the preservation and restoration of the Historic Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee. While working in the preservation of Carnton, he discovered old diaries, scrapbooks, letters and yellowed newspaper clippings and began to piece together the story of Carrie McGavock. Widow of the South is his first novel.
'It is a wonderful novel about what war does to its participants - not only the soldiers, but the families pulled from the periphery onto the battlefield. Hicks has perfected the art of mixing fact and fiction, and turned the book into a sustained, profound meditation on what it means to live, to love and to die. Congratulations to Robert Hicks - he has written a moving and magnificent novel' * Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring * A wonderful read. Blends the historical and the personal with a master stroyteller's skill * San Francisco Chronicle * Written with lyrical beauty, arresting images as well as a compelling storyline * People * Based on fact and meticulously researched, it is a moving novel. Robert Hicks is a superb storyteller. * Choice * 'A sleeping giant' * USA Today *
