The Winter People

by John Ehle

Book Overview

While sitting in her 150-year-old cabin in the mountains of North Carolina at the beginning of the Depression, Collie Wright sees furtive figures emerging from the woods on a chilly, near-winter evening. The figures turn out to be clockmaker Wayland Jackson, a widower on his way to Tennessee to seek work, and his 12-year-old daughter, Paula. Wayland's truck has broken down, and the two have lost their way. Collie allows them to stay the night, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060149302
• ISBN13: 9780060149307
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great novel that should be better known!

Ehle's Appalachian novels are wonderful. The Winter People is a gripping story of family and loyalty and place that I can't begin to summarize. This is on my shelf of my all-time favorite novels.