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George Mackay Brown

Melinda Haynes is a lifelong Southerner, who lives with her husband in Alabama.

She is the bestselling author of Mother of Pearl, an Oprah′s Book Club selection, which we published in Flamingo in 2000, and Chalktown, which we published in 2001.
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Beside the Ocean of Time Beside the Ocean of Time
Thorfinn, a crofter's son living on the remote island of Norday, is a...

Interview

1. How did the idea for Mother of Pearl originate?

I believe the novel′s origin goes back about ten years, and is connected in a very real way to my internal battle against being alone. I′ll explain. A very dear friend of mine told me one day while I was "railing" against every single thing there was to rail against - God, humankind, family, love - that what I needed was a "face with skin on it." Janet was my closest friend, but forty years my senior and, sadly, most of...

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