Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society

A Novel

De: Amy Hill Hearth

Narrado por: Amy Hill Hearth

A brilliant debut novel from a New York Times best-selling author about a transplanted wife from Boston who arrives in Florida in the 1960s, starts a literary salon, and shakes up the status quo.

In 1962, Jackie Hart moved to Naples, Florida, from Boston with her husband and children. Wanting something personally fulfilling to do with her time, she starts a reading club and anonymously hosts a radio show, calling herself Miss Dreamsville.

The racially segregated town falls in love with Miss Dreamsville, but doesn't know what to make of Jackie, who welcomes everyone into her book club, including a woman who did prison time for allegedly killing her husband, a man of questionable sexual preference, a young divorcee, as well as a black woman.

By the end of this novel, you'll be wiping away the tears of laugher and sadness, and you just may become a bit more hopeful that even the most hateful people can see the light of humanitarianism, if they just give themselves a chance.

©2012 Amy Hill Hearth (P)2012 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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"Amy Hill Hearth's delightful first novel, Miss Dreamville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society is a rollicking, provocative tale about how reading and meeting others who are different can be the most subversive of acts." (Ruth Pennebaker, author of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough)

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I read for escapism, and prefer stories without all of the problems in the world. I would have enjoyed hearing about the other things in life, rather than just nuggets of racism and genderism and the difficult parts of life. that's all there was in this book...just constant problems and issues. there is so much more to life, and I would have enjoyed hearing about that. Old Florida was a fascinating time and people seem to only want to focus on the bad parts.