Whimsey
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kay Wilkinson Barley
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780615768885
Subjects: Artist colonies; Fiction; Jewelry making; Man-woman relationships; Ghost stories; Colonies d'artistes; Romans, nouvelles; Bijoux; Fabrication; Relations entre hommes et femmes; Histoires de fantômes
Description: "Whimsey is a novel of southern fiction with a splash of magic and a touch of fantasy, topped with a sprinkling of humor. The magic was already there when cigar-smoking matriarch Elizabeth Calhoun established an artist's colony on an island off the coast of Georgia and named it Whimsey. Elizabeth's ghost still drops in from time to time to make sure things are going as she planned. There's also a wicked pixie named Earlene who fancies tight-fitting designer clothes and Louboutin stilettos. Elizabeth's grandniece, Emma Hamilton Foley, a once-promising jewelry designer who moved away from the island, now fears her talent has deserted her. Along with her four best childhood friends, she has been invited to be a resident artist at Whimsey's new upscale gallery, Les étoiles. To join them, she'll need to regain her talent, face the demons from her past and her feelings about Eli Tatnall, whom she loved as a girl. Will moving back to the Island of Whimsey bring the magic back?"--Page 4 of cover.