The Road to Eden's Ridge - Hardcover

Rose, M. L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155853993X ISBN 13: 9781558539938

Publisher: Rutledge Hill Pr, 2002

Synopsis

The Road to Eden's Ridge is a love story evocative of The Bridgesof Madison County.

Less than an hour before her wedding, Lindsey Briggs stands in her bedroom ina Maine farmhouse and decides to call off the wedding and pursue her musicaldreams in Nashville, Tennessee. When she sings at the Bluebird Café, she meetsBen McBride, a country-singing legend and old army buddy of her grandfather. Thethreat of falling in love with McBride's young lawyer makes Lindsey flee back toMaine where she learns of the love years earlier between Ben and hergrandmother's sister Lily and the truth about her own past.

The book has been optioned for film by Lindsay Doran, producer of DeadAgain andSense and Sensibility, who says, "If a book issupposed to be a love story, I ask myself if I sob big sobs. When I readTheRoad to Eden's Ridge, I sob big sobs."

About this title

About the Author

M.L. Rose is a pseudonym for Myra McLary and Linda Weeks, writing teachers and long-time friends. Myra McLary is a novelist. Kirkus Reviews said of her Water from the Well, "A lyrical first novel... prose both elegant and original." Linda Weeks is a freelance writer who teaches at Dyersburg State Community College. The two met at the Tennessee Governor's Academy for Teachers of Writing at UT Knoxville, where they have both been on the faculty for ten years.

Myra lives in Arlington, Massachusetts; Linda lives in Ripley, Tennessee.

Review

Eden's Ridge provided the biggest unexpected cry in years- Amazing emotional turns. A must read. --Amy Grant

The Road to Eden's Ridge has the heart and soul of a good country song. Ben McBride is a soul mate to all of us who have traveled that road. --Willie Nelson

I finished The Road to Eden's Ridge (Iroquois Press an imprint of Turner Publishing) Sunday night and I sure wish I hadn't read it yet I wish I had it to look forward to. This is a novel with a heart. I tried, oh how I tried, not to cry. Every blurb I'd read about this book said you hold the book in one hand and a hankie in the other. I got to the last chapter dry-eyed, but then that fell apart. It's not that it's a sad book, really, it just evokes a lot of emotion at several levels. --JKS Communications

The author has a way with words and the storyline was fast pace and never boring. When I thought I was in for an EXPECTED twist, I was pleased and surprised that it was not. I read fiction addictively and my personal sign that a book has THE MAGIC is if I never put it down, never crease a page to hold my place or bend the spine because I just need a break. The storyline is encouraging and I found it applicable to anyone who might have a dream yet unfilled. The book left me thinking that our destiny will reveal itself if we chase after our dreams no matter the twists, turns and bumps along the way. What a pleasure it was to read. My only challenge is that I can't wait to read this authors next book. I hope there will be more! --Sue, Fiction Fanatic Blog

In her testimonial blurb, music star Amy Grant notes that The Road to Eden's Ridge provides the biggest unexpected cry in years. Indeed, the book is what Nashville songwriters sometimes call a weeper, and it's not for nothing that Romantic Times has designated Eden's Ridge a Top Pick. The locally set segments of the book are smart and entertaining, with most of Nashville's familiar landmarks making appearances. Brown's Diner is a favored gathering spot, for instance, and Krispy Kreme donuts function as both peace offerings and tools of seduction. Recounting the misadventures of a musician on the bottom rungs of stardom, the authors convey the bright excitement of late nights in the music business and leave a whiff of autobiography in their wake. --Nashville Scene, Wayne Christeson

Reading The Road To Eden’s Ridge is like stepping into a well-crafted country song. The writing is lyrical and melodic and filled with the best kind of story-telling—simple, down-to-earth—the kind that has made country music so compelling to listen to even by hard core fans of Schumann’s “Reverie” or Debussy’s “Claire de Lune.” You will see why I made these classical references when you pick this novel up that you can plow through as fast as a well-tended field. -- dixiesunclaimedbaggage.blogspot

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutledge Hill Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 155853993X
• ISBN 13: 9781558539938
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256