Sue Monk Kidd is the author of two widely acclaimed memoirs, THE DANCE OF THE DISSIDENT DAUGHTER and WHEN THE HEART WAITS. Her fiction has appeared in several literary journals. She lives beside a salt marsh in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband.
'Sex, an eccentric cast and flashes of the black humour lighten a mid-life meditation on the nature of love, loss and redemption' Scotsman Book clubs, start your engines... [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss USA Today Her writing is so smart and sharp, she gives new life to old midlife crises, and she draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow Time Emotionally rich... full of sultry, magical descriptions of life in the South... sure to be another hit for Kidd Publishers Weekly Compelling reading... The writing is soulful in its probing of the human heart and family secrets San Francisco Chronicle It's hard to put this book down for little things like sleeping and eating Elle