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Sweetwater Creek Audio CD – Audiobook, August 9, 2005

by Anne Rivers Siddons (Author), Anna Fields (Reader)

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From best-selling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society.

At twelve, Emily Parmenter is left mostly to herself after her mother disappears and her beloved older brother dies. Emily has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise hunting spaniels. It is a meager, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic.

And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season. Where Emily's father sees Lulu as an entrée to society, Emily is threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's world apart and let the real one in -- but at a terrible price.

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English
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HarperAudio
Publication date

August 9, 2005
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5.25 x 1.5 x 5.75 inches
ISBN-10

0060832827
ISBN-13

978-0060832827
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperAudio; Unabridged edition (August 9, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060832827
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060832827
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.5 x 5.75 inches

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Anne Rivers Siddons (born January 9, 1936) is an American novelist who writes stories set in the southern United States.

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carole lynch

magical descriptions

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2023

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I always enjoy wonderful writing with descriptions that make me feel I am in the place the author describes!
Put that with a plot and characters that
cause me to read through them the night and the book is a favorite!

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2014

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This is a sweet, rather slow-moving story full of descriptive scenery depicting South Carolina's Low County. Sweetwater is an old plantation, now used by its owners as the head quarters of a family business dedicated to the breeding and training of prized duck hunting dogs named Boykin Spaniels. The plantation rests near Sweetwater Creek , and is the setting for a twelve year old girl's coming of age story. Raised by a distracted father and two older brothers with whom she has little connection, Emmy's heart longs to heal from the past, which involves the death of a beloved brother as well as her mother's abandonment. Left to her own devices, Emmy is a natural dog trainer that lives in an isolated world until Lulu Foxworth comes to stay with the Parmenter family for the summer, eventually turning their lives upside down.

Sweetwater Creek is a rich, coming of age story told beautifully and authentically with fully developed characters who reside in an uncommonly soulful setting. If you like a book that reads like a song of the South, this is for you.

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Russell J. Sanders

A masterful writer

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2017

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One of the joys of reading Anne Rivers Siddons is reveling in her beautiful way with words. Siddons paints pictures that are so real you see, feel, and smell her images. And those images are often of her Lowcountry, that magical part of South Carolina that is Charleston and its surrounding areas. Sweetwater Creek is right in the middle of that Lowcountry, and it is as much a character in Siddons’s novel titled the same, Sweetwater Creek, as is the main character, thirteen year old Emily Parmenter. This is a coming of age story like none other. Emily trains Boykin spaniels, and she is so good at it because she can actually speak to the dogs with her eyes and her inner voice. She also speaks to her long-dead brother Buddy, and he answers her. And into her mundane life comes Lulu, a young emotionally wounded woman from a very rich Charleston family. Lulu is a major influence on Emily, but the truth is that Emily is just as much an influence on Lulu, and that is what drives Emily’s coming of age. This is a beautiful, beautiful novel. I found it difficult to get into—the first fifty pages or so seemed slow to me—but perhaps that was Siddons’s plan, to move us slowly into her plot until we were so entangled in the lives of Emily and Lulu and the rest that we couldn’t put it down. I know I had a hard time putting this down, and in fact the last 150 pages were read almost in one sitting. And lest you think, from my telling of Emily talking to dogs and her dead brother, that this is some sort of supernatural thing, it is not—but then again when you fully embrace the magic spell of the Lowcountry, perhaps it is.

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Donna

Southern ideas

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2023

Young girls thoughts

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2016

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Although I usually enjoy ARS's books, the content turned so dark and disturbing that I had trouble giving it even 3 stars. It's difficult to explain this without spoiling it for others, but if I ever meet ARS, I will ask her to tell all of us what in the world eventually happened to Lulu? We were so drawn in to the experience but suddenly Lulu just disappeared and we were never told the end of the story. So dissatisfying for all of us who were at least entitled to closure. Emily's story and coming of age plus her devotion and skill with training the dogs was wonderful. I loved reading about South Carolina's low country through Emily's eyes and was enchanted with all the fabulous sights the natives know to watch for.
This could have been a great book, but if you read other reviews, you'll find most of us are all singing the same song.

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2005

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SWEETWATER CREEK, along with NORAH, NORAH, and to a lesser degree, ISLANDS, returns to the kind of storytelling Anne Siddons does best -- a lovely coming of age story set in the South. There's a blurb on the jacket that says you don't read her books, you live in them -- and I lived in this one. I buried myself in it for two days --putting off finishing it simply because I was enjoying it too much for it to end.

As one who also loves and needs the sea and the marshes, her descriptions are perfect and incredibly evocative. I think even someone who has lived in the Midwest will easily conjure up the beautiful landscape of the Southern marshlands. The main character Emily is well-drawn and someone with whom you become involved very quickly. I've read all of Anne's books -- and have had the pleasure of working with her several times on the Atlanta Writers in Concerts -- and this is one of her best.

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South Carolina coastal setting

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020

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I began reading Anne Rivers Siddons only recently, as both Pat Conroy and Cassandra King both gave her a thumbs up as a gifted writer. She truly is extraordinarily talented in her writing skills. Her characters are carefully and deftly developed, and the action and settings are described in such a way as they are easy to imagine as a reader. I'm on I've just finished my third Siddons novel, and will continue to work my way through her other novels in due course. This author employs words that are seldom see in the written pages of most novels, and is able to conjure mood and setting using her deft skills as a gifted wordsmith.

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Melee

Great coming of age read!

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2022

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As one of those girls that have saltwater in our veins, this story was on point. Growing up in the South is not for the weak!

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Molly T King

Intoxicating.

Reviewed in Australia on March 16, 2017

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How I love Ann Rivers Siddon's writing! She draws the reader in from the first sentence. The characters are so well drawn and developed that you love them easily. The tale of Emily's journey into womanhood takes many twists and turns as we come to know Sweetwater Creek and its people.

Mendel

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2013

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Anne Rivers Siddons has long been a favourite of mine, and this story did not disappoint.If you like stories about the deep South and its culture then this book is for you. The story of a young girl sadly emotionally neglected by her father and brothers is somehow uplifting. It helps too if you like dogs!

neferet

Sweetwater Creek

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2015

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Beautiful book, but Anne Rivers Siddons is one of my favourite authors.

Rosemary Ockendon-Day

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2015

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Great writer