Dorothea Benton Frank. (2011). Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Dorothea Benton Frank. 2011. Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale. HarperAudio.

Dorothea Benton Frank, Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale. HarperAudio, 2011.

Dorothea Benton Frank. Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2011.

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     New York Times bestseller Dorothea Benton Frank was born and raised on Sullivans Island, South Carolina. Until her passing in 2019, Dorothea and her husband split their time between New Jersey and South Carolina. A contemporary voice of the South, Dorothea Benton Frank was beloved by fans and friends alike since her debut novel Sullivans Island. Readers from coast to coast fell for the quick wit and the signature humor that permeated her many bestselling novels.

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"Dottie Frank's books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property."
—Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad

The incomparable Dorothea Benton Frank is back with her latest Lowcountry Novel, Folly Beach. As she has with Lowcountry Summer, Return to Sullivans Island, Land of Mango Sunsets, and so many other delightful literal excursions to this magical Southern locale, the perennial New York Times bestselling author enchants readers with a heart-warming tale of loss, acceptance, family, and love—as a woman returns to the past to find her future. Folly Beach is a constant delight from "a masterful storyteller" (Booklist) who has already secured her place alongside Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, Rebecca Wells, Barbara Delinsky and other contemporary queens of bestselling women's fiction.

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     June 27, 2011
     Frank's latest novel displays a rare talent that fans will welcome. Cate's philandering husband has died, leaving her nothing, and the entire contents of her sizable home have been repossessed. She returns to her relatives in Charleston hoping to get a grip on what has happened and on what comes next. Cate's new life with her firecracker of an aunt in the South is told primarily through hilarious and engaging dialogue with family and friends, with a smattering of seriousness along the way. The recently widowed protagonist's journey to rediscovering joy and love will thrill readers, especially with the addition of a suavely integrated story-within-a-story involving a one-woman play about the lovers who wrote Porgy and Bess. There's a certain authenticity to the lives Frank tells that will resonate with many women. Frank's telling of this tale will help readers celebrate love and sexuality after 60.

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     January 1, 2011
     

     Cate enjoyed South Carolina's Folly Beach as a child, but when she returns as an adult she's not just widowed but broke--her faithless husband wrecked their finances. Still, she slowly opens herself to the possibilities. The one-day laydown on June 14 and 250,000-copy first printing attest to the ongoing popularity of Frank's Lowcountry titles, and the ten-city tour will help. Buy multiples wherever Frank is popular.

     Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     A widow returns to her childhood haven, Folly Beach, S.C., where she is captivated by new love and a literary mystery.

     In this latest of Frank's Lowcountry series set on South Carolina's picturesque barrier islands, the heroine, Cate, is another victim of the economic crash of 2008. When she discovers her equity-trader husband, Addison, hanging over her piano in their New Jersey mansion, she only has an inkling of the financial shenanigans that led to his suicide. Within 24 hours, mistresses, paternity claims and collection liens are popping up like dandelions, and Cate watches in horror as all her worldly goods are repossessed. Flat broke (even her engagement bling is a zircon!), she has no alternative but to flee to the South Carolina home of her Aunt Daisy, who raised Cate and sister Patti after they were orphaned as children. Almost immediately, in a clichéd fender-bender "meet cute," she finds Prince Charming: professor John Risley, who specializes in the Charleston Renaissance of the 1920s. Soon Cate is installed in the Porgy House (part of Aunt Daisy's beach-rental empire), so named because Charleston Renaissance poet DuBose Heyward and his wife Dorothy lived there while George Gershwin was adapting the Heywards' play Porgy into Porgy and Bess. Around mid-novel, we realize that the sections that have been alternating with Cate's chapters, narrated by Dorothy, are from a one-woman play that John encouraged Cate to write--or, more accurately, a verbiage-choked rough draft of a play. Cate copes with John's impossible goodness, Aunt Daisy's illness, the pregnancy of her son's narcissistic wife and her actress daughter's rants, but her chief preoccupation is proving that Dorothy, not DuBose, was the real librettist and lyricist of Porgy and Bess. The narrative is already bogged down by Dorothy's monologues, but the scenes of Cate's post-opulent life are equally interminable--Frank is seemingly loath to leave anything out, however mundane.

     This novel about dramatists, although lightened by some witty down-home repartee, displays little aptitude for scene-craft.

     (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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     June 1, 2011
     Picking up the pieces of her splintered life after her husband's suicide, Cate Cooper flees cold New Jersey for the warmth of her hometown, Folly Beach, South Carolina. Stopping at the local Piggly Wiggly before heading to the nurturing arms of her elderly aunt Daisy, Cate is involved in a fender bender with one of Folly Beach's most handsome and potentially eligible men. An expert on Charleston's cultural heritage, Professor John Risley is even more smitten with Cate when he finds out she's staying in the Porgy House, Aunt Daisy's beachside cottage, where playwrights Dorothy and DuBose Heyward collaborated with George Gershwin on Porgy and Bess. As the cottage unveils its secrets, Cate contemplates writing a play of her own, encouraged by John's expertise as well as his romantic intentions. Alternating between Cate's personal journey of renewal and flashbacks into the lives of the Heywards, Frank's lush and literary paean to her beloved Low Country provides a romantic glimpse into an artistic past.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

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     In Frank’s latest Lowcountry novel, Cate Cooper is left homeless after the death of her financially reckless husband and finds herself returning to the place of her childhood: South Carolina’s Folly Beach. Cate takes up residence in a small coastal cottage called Porgy House where she must examine her past to move her life forward. Unfortunately, this gentle, literary tale does not translate well to audio. The problem certainly doesn’t lie with narrator Robin Miles, whose rendition of Cate is likable and believable, and who expertly voices the book’s other characters, including Cate’s crotchety but loving aunt, her well-meaning children, and her sassy best friend. The issue is one of pacing. Despite Miles’s best efforts, the book’s momentum slows to a crawl. The story progresses so gradually that listening becomes tedious and hours pass with only minor plot movement. A William Morrow hardcover.

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—Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad

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