Strings Attached
BOOK 1 OF THE VENUS AS SHE AGES COLLECTION WAS RELEASED ON OCTOBER 5, 2021
(Re-release from University Press of Mississippi, 1999)
In her first novel, Gay Walley weaves into a seamless narrative - a woman’s quest for love, and the drunken, vagabond childhood she endured with her father. Raised on a barstool, Charlee spends her youth drinking in the dark dives of New England and Montreal with a father who flees from woman to woman. When she grows up, she longs for companionship, but from her father she has learned to trust only her own will and to crave solitude. Can she overcome a life of defiant independence and her drought of affection? Walley’s daring prose style allows the writer to make Charlee’s rough but endearing story immediate and vital in her present.
Featured Author: Jacqueline Gay Walley
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