I decided to keep the name as an homage to all those late nights writing with the TV on in the background. I Googled it and realized it's a name from the sit-comThe Golden Girls (Season 1, Episode 16 "The Truth Will Out"). When I was writing The Peach Keeper, I knew the name Paxton Osgood sounded familiar. Incidentally, Western North Carolina is home to over a thousand waterfalls.ĭespite the many coffee references in The Peach Keeper, I don't really like the taste of coffee - although I do think it has the most amazing scent. This county has more waterfalls than any other place in the state and is known as The Land of Waterfalls.
The town of Walls of Water is based on the many small towns of Transylvania County in Western North Carolina. My original title for The Peach Keeper was God Eats Peaches. pulses with sensual details." -The Denver Post "Sarah Addison Allen writes the kind of books I love best: rich, magical, irresistible.A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and Barnes & Noble bestseller. a must-read for fans of Alice Hoffman." - Library Journal "Immensely readable.
Allen masterfully weaves a Southern world of believable characters and keeps readers flipping pages with this dreamy one-nighter." - Southern Literary Review "In this delectable, read-in-one-sitting treasure, Allen once again demonstrates her astonishing ability to believably blur the lines between the magical and the mundane." - Booklist "Peppered with Allen's trademark Southern charm. Praise for The Peach Keeper "Secrets are ready to be uncovered. Thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the passions and betrayals that once bound their families-and uncover the truths that have transcended time to touch the hearts of the living. But when a skeleton is found buried beneath the property's lone peach tree, long-kept secrets come to light, accompanied by a spate of strange occurrences throughout the town. Willa has lately learned that an old classmate-socialite Paxton Osgood-has restored the house to its former glory, with plans to turn it into a top-flight inn. The Blue Ridge Madam-built by Willa's great-great-grandfather and once the finest home in Walls of Water, North Carolina-has stood for years as a monument to misfortune and scandal. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - " Sarah Addison Allen] juggles small-town history and mystical thriller, character development and eerie magical realism in a fine Southern gothic drama." - Publishers Weekly It's the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago.
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