Lisa Wingate is back with a new novel, The Prayer Box. Selected among BOOKLIST'S Top 10 of 2012,
Lisa Wingate skillfully weaves lyrical writing and unforgettable Southern settings
with elements of women's fiction, history, and mystery to create stories that Publisher's Weekly calls
"Masterful" and Library Journal refers to as "a good option for
fans of Nicholas
Sparks and Mary Alice Monroe."
"When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras
Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of
cleaning out Iola’s rambling Victorian house.
Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more
than a temporary hiding place within Iola’s walls, but everything changes with
the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each
year, spanning from Iola’s youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the
story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper--the hopes and wishes,
fears and thoughts of an unassuming but complex woman passing through the
seasons of an extraordinary, unsung life filled with journeys of faith,
observations on love, and one final lesson that could change everything for
Tandi.”
