The Richest Season: 0 - Hardcover

"Set in the fabled landscape of South Carolina's Low Country, The Richest Season takes us on a heart-rending journey of discovery. Maryann McFadden is an exciting new author who writes with compassion, wisdom, and astonishing skill."--Cassandra King, author of Queen of Broken Hearts

"In Maryann McFadden's brave and carefully made novel, The Richest Season, two women set out on open-ended odysseys, one to find her life, one to find meaning in her death. Lonely Joanna gives up all she knows for a single chance at all she needs. When they meet, Grace relinquishes her aloof solitude to embrace life at its end, banking on the borrowed courage of a stranger. McFadden is out of the gate and on her way."--Jacquelyn Mitchard, author, The Deep End of the Ocean and Still Summer

"The Richest Season is filled with so much honesty and searching and struggle involving three characters whom I grew to love, that I hated to come to the end."--Paulette Bates Alden, author of Crossing the Moon and Feeding the Eagles

Having raised her children in a dozen different towns in order to support her husband's frequent corporate relocations, Joanna leaves her husband to return to the coastal South Carolina community she loves, while Paul, distraught by Joanna's abandonment, leaves his job and endeavors to win her back. A first novel.