Low Country audiobook

I love all of Anne River Siddons books. She has a way of drawing you right into the page you are reading. I see myself sitting on the porch looking out at the marshes, hearing all the sounds of the Lowcountry!

The sights, the sounds, the smells of the marshland, the wild ponies, and the Gullah community of Dayclear will permeate your skin and soul as you read this moving tale of Caro's fight to save her beloved island that has been in her family for all her life. She must also deal with the unresolved grief over the death of her daughter as well as the betrayal of her husband as he is planning to sell it to a development group. Told with heart and a group of characters you will not soon forget.

So HumanSiddons' characters are so full of emotion, and they draw from her readers feelings that probably seldom see light. She expresses those emotions in words that, for most people, are difficult to find. Reading her books is cathartic and educational.

Terrifically emotional. Be prepared for tears. Captures the true low country life you can feel every emotion and picture each person and placeuntrySee above notes. These are the back roads of south Carolina. Take them when you visit. So worth it. Stop and visit

I enjoy this author a lot. Caro struggles to live with the accidental death of her daughter, but also pays less attention to her son and husband. She seeks solace in the island home of her dead Grandfather who bequeathed her the house. The struggle to find herself and save her island bring her into conflict with her husband. Really a nice book.

I love a book that gets me invested in the all the characters and their lives. This book describes the country and characters without being flowery. A story of love and loss and life struggles. I was sorry to end it at 2:00 in the morning.

Anne Rivers Siddons is a master storyteller. But most importantly, she is a skilled, graceful writer. Her descriptions are almost poetic. She writes of what she knows best: the South Carolina. In this novel, Low Country, she sets her story on a fictional Carolina island, Peacock’s Island, and the equally fictional marshy land adjacent. This marsh contains a Gullah settlement, populated with mostly old Gullah folks who have lived their lives there, never having title to their land, but continuing their daily lives at the behest of the heroine Caroline Venable’s grandfather. Upon his death, Caroline vows their part of the island, where she has her grandfather’s house and where the Gullah settlement is, will always be unchanged, untrampled by encroaching development. The crux of the novel is Caroline’s struggle to keep her promise. Low Country is rich in character, rich in folklore, rich in mysticism, and rich in the dichotomy between enshrining old ways while embracing the new. Siddons is a master craftsperson in the genre of Southern Literature. Low Country is one of her best novels, in my opinion. Her plot moves swiftly, but at times she pauses for a few pages of description. Those few pages are scenes painted so beautifully that the reader revels in them. And that plot? I never saw the ending coming.

Caroline grew up inland, but she spent her summers with her grandfather on an island off the coast of South Carolina, opposite Charleston.One summer, a friend brought his college roommate to the island allegedly to talk with the grandfather, but really to meet Caroline. So, Caroline married Clay Venable. And they lived happily and contentedly until their youngest child dies in a boating accident.Caroline and Clay stopped having meaningful conversations. Carolina acted as a mother hen to the young ccouples Clay hired, especially the wives.Carolina escapes to the island. Clay had her sign a document that would make the island Caroline's. There is an old, established Gullah town at one end of the island; Caroline's home is at the opposite end.Clay's business is on very shaky terms; he stands to lose it all. Caroline discovers that she does not own the island -- the deed was never filed.Carolina's world is coming to an end.A good story.

Caroline Venable has everything her southern heritage promised money,prestige a rich husband ,country club luncheons and cocktail parties. If she drinks a little too much for her husbands liking he knows the reason why and he takes comfort in the fact that she can escape to the wild and timeless island in the low country that her granddaddy left her. Captivated by its beauty and the band of wild ponies that roam their Caroline can lose herself and simply forget. When she learns that her husband must develop the island or lose his company she's devastated by the threat to her heritage and the ponies. Now Caroline must confront the part of herself she has numbed with alcohol and avoidance reconsider her priorities her marriage and herself. A great story I could not put down.

This book is so well done - I'd give it 5 stars but for one important turn at the end that I really didn't care for. Won't say more on that. Otherwise, the writing is beautiful and the story is engaging with wonderful twists & even a few breathtaking moments. She uses the most lovely lyrical language without being showy about it or overdoing it. I feel as if I've spent a few weeks on the marshy islands off of South Carolina. She makes you see it, smell it, taste it - remarkable. Her themes of love, loss, loyalty, and ecology/environment are some of my favorites and she treats each one with the depth and seriousness that they deserve. I highly recommend it!

Like Pat Conroy, Siddons immerses her reader in the lives of her characters. Her grasp of human nature propels her plots. In “Low Country,” Caro Venable’s perfect world is turned upside down and shown to be what it is- a confection that melts. And the reader feels the gut punches, cries the tears (I cried along with Caro at the book’s climax, as well as along the way to that point) and experiences the cleansing of redemption, as imperfect as it might be. And like Conroy, Siddons’ sense of place permeates each page. You see the light in the sky, the trembling of the air, the smell of the marsh mud. Reading Siddons is a lush life experience.

Wonderful book about the low country. I have only been to Charleston 3 times, but am envious of the residents there and also in the envirouns such as Mt. Pleasant and Shem Creek. If I ever get to go back that way, I want to explore some of these wondrous marshes and barrier islands. There never seems to be enough time to see everything described in the books I read. What I have seen of that area makes me homesick to see more!but

Awesome NovelThis book deserves 10 stars! This my first book by this author, but it won't be my last. she's so descriptive that the further I got into the novel, the more difficulty I had putting it down. Her ability to make the characters real and draw you into the novel were amazing. This is among the absolute best novels I've ever read, and I highly recommend it!

COULDNT PUT IT DOWN!Im an old lady (88 and counting.) This book touched many corners of my life reminding me once again how true it is that all the cecisions we make governs the life we are given to live. The poignant gifts of loving, forgiveness,and sometimes just "making do"create the life we are meant to live.

What a page turner!I can usually figure out ahead what's going to happen. But not in this story!! Too good to put down, especially closer to the end . you dont want to miss reading this wonderful story . mmm mmm. No by.

I liked this much better than her other books. There were some nice twists and I was satisfied with the conclusion.