Stoney Beck
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Jean Houghton-Beatty
Publisher: Boson Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Raleigh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780917990847
Subjects: Huntington's disease; Fiction
Description: When Jenny Robinson's father dies of Huntington's disease, she tells her mother she will never marry out of fear that she might have inherited the disease. Jennys mother, filled with grief over her husband's death and guilt over secrets she never told her daughter, dies from an overdose of prescription pills. She leaves an unfinished note along with a snapshot of Jenny's biological father, a man she met in England's Lake District. This was a secret, tied to the name Charles Woodleigh, that neither Jenny nor anyone in her family could ever have suspected. Jenny leaves North Carolina and travels to the village of Stoney Beck.