num_pages: 367
description: A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, and bones. It's through these treasured mementos that we meet Molly Petree.Raised in those ruins and orphaned by the Civil War, Molly is a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. When a mysterious benefactor appears out her father's past to rescue her, she never looks back.Spanning half a century, On Agate Hill follows Molly’s passionate, picaresque journey through love, betrayal, motherhood, a murder trial―and back home to Agate Hill under circumstances she never could have imagined.
language: English
title: On Agate Hill
titlecomplete: On Agate Hill
genres: Historical, Southern, Adult Fiction, Civil War, War, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Coming Of Age, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 3802
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
publisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book