Book Review: South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber

South of the Buttonwood Tree
by Heather Webber (Webber)

 

Published July 21, 2020. Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton and Blue Bishop are the protagonists, each being a strong woman whose personal goals don’t seem possible because of expectations placed on them. The author combines a magical realism reminiscent of Joanne Harris’s Chocolat with the Southern charm you’d find in a Fannie Flagg novel. The winds in Buttonwood, Alabama have always guided Blue to find things. Houses speak to Sarah Grace. When the winds direct Blue to a newborn baby left by the Buttonwood Tree, Sarah Grace is called to buy Blue’s family’s abandoned house, both women have to unearth their own secrets and solve one of the town’s mysteries.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! and Standing in the Rainbow, by Fannie Flagg, or Chocolat by Joanne Harris.]

[ official South of the Buttonwood Tree page on the official Heather Webber web site ]

 

Recommended by Jodi R.
Anderson and Bethany Branch Library

 

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