Lily of the Valley

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With a gift for creating fiction that is 'rich with unusual sweetness' (USA Today) and filled with wry humour, the bestselling author of Hoopi Shoopi Donna delivers a poignant and unforgettable portrait of the artist as a young woman. Lily Wilk always knew she was destined to be an artist, ever since she pulled a drawing kit from a grab bag on her tenth birthday. Now Lily's work is always in demand around her small Massachusetts town, where she makes her living painting everything from fire hydrants to 'Gulls' and 'Buoys' signs on the bathroom doors at the local seafood restaurant. But when supermarket heiress Mary Ziemba commissions her to paint a family portrait, Lily senses that her lifelong dream of creating a memorable masterpiece is finally within her grasp. What she discovers however, is that dreams often take unexpected twists...and with each small and gentle brush stroke she applies to Mary Zicmba's painting, Lily learns more than she ever imagined about the meaning of friendship, family and love.

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Ann Hood author of Ruby It is a gift to take the ordinary and make it extraordinary, to reveal the lives we see unfolding every day, and add a charm and warmth to them that those of us who move around them sometimes forget to notice. But this is what Suzanne Strempek Shea does for her readers. Chicago Tribune An intriguing portrait...Lily is the latest of Shea's quirky but hugely likable heroines...True to form, Shea makes [her characters] memorable.

Author Bio

Suzanne Strempek Shea is the prize-winning author of the highly acclaimed novels Selling the Lite of Heaven (0671798650) and Hoopi Shoopi Donna (0671535455). She is the recipient of the 2000 New England Book Award for fiction, given by the New England Booksellers Association in recognition of a body of work that contributes to the literature of the region.