The Peach Keeper

The Peach Keeper
By Sarah Addison Allen
Bantam Books, 2011. 273 pgs. Fiction

A dash of magic, strong Southern women, peaches, and secrets are just some of what you will find in Sarah Addison Allen’s latest novel. Set in Walls of Water, North Carolina, this is the story of two very opposite women. Paxton Osgood has spent her life trying to be the woman that everyone expects her to be especially her socialite mother who can’t bear the thought of Paxton moving out on her own. Willa Jackson has never been the person people thought her to be, but after her father dies, she decides it was finally time return to Walls of Water to live up to her potential. These two women, who have never been friends, are bound together by family secrets from the past and their hopes for the future.

This is a book about friendship and the unshakable bonds that can form among women. Allen’s books tend to have a darker underbelly covered in honey sweet Southern charm which makes for a very rewarding mix.

AJ