Taking Lottie Home: A Novel

Name: Taking Lottie Home: A Novel
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Terry Kay

Feb 2013 · Harper Collins

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Two turn-of-the-century baseball players vie for the love of one woman in this "affecting" historical saga that "glows with warmth and sincerity" ( Publishers Weekly ).

When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway — a girl-woman named Lottie Parker — on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness.

Foster will marry her and father her son.

Ben will escort her home.

And Lottie will change the lives of everyone she meets, from the day she runs away until she finally finds the place where she belongs.

"Elegaic . . . [Kay] evokes these unsung lives with remarkable tenderness." — Kirkus Reviews

"Kay's prose has an almost dreamlike accessibility, flowing as smoothly as a river without curves." — The Orlando Sentinel

"Captivating . . . timeless. . . . Taking Lottie Home offers the whole literary package—imagery and metaphor, characters wound together in an ennobling story." — The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Two turn-of-the-century baseball players vie for the love of one woman in this "affecting" historical saga that "glows with warmth and sincerity" ( Publishers Weekly ). When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have i...

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Fred Clause

September 10, 2017

I'm never disappointed with one of Terry Kay's books.

About the author

Terry Kay was born February 10, 1938 in Royston, Georgia. He grew up there and became a well-known novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in 1983. He is also the author of such best-selling works as Dark Thirty, Shadow Song, After Eli, and The Runaway, which was adapted for the screen. He won an Emmy for his screenplay Run Down the Rabbit. Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction and was also adapted for the screen. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli, and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He published The Book of Marie in 2007. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. Terry Kay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82.

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