Review
From the book jacket:
In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman
who has only her former slave to keep her
company…and the almost 1,500 soldiers buried
in her backyard. Years before, rather than
let someone plow over the field where these
young men had been buried, Carrie dug them
up and reburied them in her own personal
cemetery. Now, as she walks the rows of the
dead, an old soldier appears. It is the man
she met on the day of the battle that
changed everything. The man who came to her
house as a wounded soldier and left with her
heart. He asks if the cemetery has room for
one more.
Comment: Hicks' first novel blends
historical fact with fiction. The story...
Beyond the Book
Robert Hicks
was born and raised in South
Florida. In 1974 he moved to
Tennessee where he now lives in
an eighteenth-century log cabin
near Leiper's Fork. His day job
is music publishing and artist
management but his passion is
collecting - including 18th
century maps of Tennessee,
Tennesseana in general and
Southern decorative arts. He
was the driving force behind,
and co-curator of, the Art of
Tennessee exhibition in
Nashville which opened in
September 2003 and has served on
the boards of a number of
historic...
