GCC: The Garden Angel by Mindy Friddle

We have another great Southern story touring in the Girl's Cybercircuit, The Garden Angel by Mindy Friddle. The story is about Sans Souci, South Carolina, where talk is cheap, and real estate even more so. No one knows this better than Cutter Johanson, a gruff tomboy who waits tables, writes obits, and makes every effort, however comical and in the face of her mercenary relatives, to avert the sale of the dilapidated ancestral home. And despite her plucky resolve, all appears to be lost—until she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Elizabeth, a shy and fragile academic who puts both their fates on the mend.

According to it's starred Kirkus Review, "A comic delight...Winning characters and piquant wit, with an underpinning of graciousness: a standout."

And Booklist says: "...Friddle concentrates her considerable talents on developing fully realized protagonists who earn and deserve the reader's respect."

Check out an excerpt here...