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Sweetwater Creek (novel)

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Sweetwater Creek
First edition cover
AuthorAnne Rivers Siddons
Audio read byAnna Fields
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN978-0-06-621335-4

Sweetwater Creek is a 2005 novel by American writer Anne Rivers Siddons. It is the story of a girl named Emily who survives her mother's abandonment and her older brother's suicide. She finds purpose in training her father's spaniels and takes refuge in the magic of Sweetwater Creek. A new friend enters Emily's life in the person of Lulu, a troubled daughter of privilege whose secrets threaten to destroy Emily's beautiful new world.

Reception

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Publishers Weekly wrote that it was a "capable but uninspired story of a young girl's coming-of-age on the family plantation".[1]

Booklist reviewed the audiobook narrated by American actress Anna Fields.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons". Publishers Weekly. August 15, 2005. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  2. ^ "Sweetwater Creek". Booklist. January 1, 2006. Retrieved October 15, 2024.