Nan’s Story by Paige Farmer #spotlight

Book Description

Publication Date: June 17, 2012

How can you possibly win when you are your own worst enemy?

Nancy Elaine Bower (Nan to those who know her well) weathers a childhood overshadowed by her father’s alcoholism and mother’s martyrdom only to be thrust into an adulthood littered with landmines of self destruction. Each erratic decision she makes twists and contorts her life in unthinkable ways, until finally she’s left in a crumpled heap on her mother’s doorstep.

It’s 1960, two years later, and Nan still meets each day as if a stranger intent on doing her harm. Hiding in plain sight from the world outside, she spends most of her time trying to win back the affections of her young son while thwarting her mother’s ceaseless interference. As she begins to fantasize of a life more normal, the serendipitous return of an old friend breathes a spark of hope into this possibility. Before she can allow herself to consider walking away from her past though, Nan must escape the unyielding bars of circumstance that surround her, and while she’ll be required to relive her greatest nightmare in order to do so, there is no guarantee of her release.

Paige Farmer

Paige Farmer has spent the past six years working and reworking Nan’s Story until the voice she sought was the one you (the reader) can now unmistakably hear. Nan’s Story is the first of her novels to be published, with two more scheduled for release in early 2013, including a prequel to Nan’s Story focusing on Elsie Bower Hamilton’s evolution to the sharp, take-no-prisoners woman that Nan’s Story readers have come to love.

Ms. Farmer lives in Southern Maine with her husband, children & cats, as well as the neighbor’s menagerie of horses, goats, dogs and ducks.

She spends her days writing beneath a plaque that reads:

“Careful or you’ll end up in my next novel”