Virtuous Woman : A Novel

A ';vivid, unsentimental, powerful' portrait of a Southern marriage by the New York Timesbestselling author of Ellen Foster (Publishers Weekly). She hasn't been dead four months and I've already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn't turn my hand over for green peas... Ruby Stokes has died too young and left her husband, Blinking Jack, behind. With alternating entries from each of them, A Virtuous Woman recounts the tale of their years together in an ';exquisitely realised piece of writing' (Elizabeth Buchan, The Mail on Sunday). From their very different backgroundsRuby a daughter of wealth, Jack a penniless tenant farmerto their relationships with their landlord and his family, and the strength they drew from each other in the face of hardship, this story of a marriage is ';full of fantastically gritty metaphors... A book that will change your dreams' (The Observer). ';Gibbons again flawlessly reproduces the humor and idiom of rural eastern North Carolina.' Library Journal