Plantation

A Lowcountry Tale

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

Narrated by: Susie Breck

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

When Caroline Wimbley Levine learns that her mother, Miss Lavinia, has supposedly gone mad, she leaves the big city bustle of Manhattan and returns to Tall Pines Plantation. Caroline originally left Tall Pines to escape her feisty, eccentric mother and her drunken brother, Trip, but when Miss Lavinia dies, Caroline is forced to come to terms with her family's troubled history as well as her failing relationship with her husband. As Caroline reminisces about her past rebelliousness and her childhood, she realizes that her father's sudden and tragic death many years before served as a catalyst for the family's disintegration. Caroline and Trip also learn that their seemingly selfish and self-assured mother was not so uncaring after all.

©2001 Dorothea Benton Frank (P)2006 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Tall Pines

I truly enjoyed this book. It was actually one of the shorter books by Dorothea Benton Frank but it’s jam packed full of wonderful descriptions that she’s famous for. And Susie Break did an amazing job with her narration. Her voice was captivating and made her Southern accent was spot on. Thank you.

Wonderful all around!

I look for books read by Susie Breck. I've loved all I've found so fast and this one is no exception!

It's Edisto!

I think it is worth listening to but I remember I really loved reading the original book. The narrator does a good job but Edisto, the name of the place where the story takes place is mispronounced. Edisto is the name of a beautiful island in South Carolina and the name of the river. It seems like some of the events and the rich description from the book don't appear in the audible version. That may be because this was an abridged version.

Great book.

I loved this book. Made me laugh and cry. wonderful story. Can't wait to read another of her books. Love the story and how it ended.

Very Southern, but Edisto is mispronounced!

I can’t believe someone with this string of a southern accent doesn’t know that it’s the Edisto (ED-is-to) not e-DIS-to. I could overlook it the first time, but to go on and on and eventually crown her brother King of the Edisto mispronounced was irritating to a genuine South Carolinian.
Story was good, though! DBF’s later works are better, but I enjoyed hearing her first.

Enjoyed this story

I enjoyed this story very much but the reading of the book left me to cringe each time the name of our black river in South Carolina was mispronounced. I am a South Carolinian born and bred. I have kayaked down the (Ed-is-toe) river an marveled at its onyx black water. The reader of the book should research the correct pronunciation.

Still a favorite!

I have read this book and listened to it at least 10 times and it continues to be a favorite.
Dorothea Benton Frank had a remarkable gift from God, bringing characters to life and joy to all of her readers. My favorite author of all time, and she will be dearly missed.

Tall Pine's take me away

I loved her last minute. The narrator was fabulous, the story was well written and I loved every character or hated them. It made me laugh and cry. I was sad for it to end.

Love a Low Country Story

loved it the first time ,and the other 100 times, too ! ! !

Another Low Country tale

DBF’s books are all similar “family in the Low Country” stories, but they are enjoyable. But WHY can’t the publisher find a narrator with a real Southern accent? Or if that’s not possible, AT LEAST tell the narrator how to pronounce Edisto. It was like fingernails on a chalkboard every time she said it. (She got Combahee wrong, too, but it was less egregious, and she only had to say it once.)