The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

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Publisher's Synopsis

For longtime Ya-Ya fans, as well as the lucky ones discovering Wells for the first time, comes Wells's new standalone novel about the pull of first love, the power of home, and everyday magic."My name is Calla Lily Ponder. I was born in 1953, in La Luna, Louisiana." And so begins Calla Lily's journey through her magical childhood in La Luna, a small town named after the sparkling river from which Calla draws her strength time and time again. It's in La Luna where Calla Lily discovers her talent for fixing people's hair—learned at the side of her talented and loving mother—but also the transformative gift of first love. But a series of tragic events leads Calla to search for a fresh start in a beauty school in New Orleans, the wild and colorful city that allows Calla to flourish into adulthood, and to realize her "healing hands" can do much more than fix damaged hair.

About the Publisher

HarperCollinsPublishers

HarperCollinsPublishers

With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one of the world's foremost English-language publishers, offering the best quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in between. In the UK, the Glasgow-based William Collins & Sons was founded in 1819 and published a range of bibles, atlases and dictionaries, later including classic authors HG Wells, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. The original Harper Brothers Company was established in New York City in 1817 and over the years published the works of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In 1987, Harper & Row, as it had then become, was acquired by News Corporation. The worldwide group was formed following News Corp's 1990 acquisition of William Collins & Sons. Today we publish some of the world's foremost authors, from Nobel prize-winners to worldwide bestsellers recent successes including the Booker-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel, and George RR Martin's blockbusting A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Book information

ISBN: 9780007321896
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: HarperCollinsPublishers
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Language: English
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 426g
Height: 208mm
Width: 137mm
Spine width: 29mm