The Secret of Rainy Days
"Like the best Southern novels, The Secret of Rainy Days reminds us when searching for your place in the world, you may find it where you least expect it. And that sometimes to move forward, you have to go back to where you came from." ―Colleen Oakley, USA Today bestselling author
Growing up in Erob, Alabama, Nina "Little Bit" Barnes Enloe lived in the shadow of her imposing and harsh grandmother, Nina "Biggie" Barnes Enloe. If she wasn't being bossed around by Biggie, then the task fell to her best friend Win...who did win. At everything. Bit never seemed to share Win's lifetime supply of “lucky dust.” Perhaps the only thing Bit has ever chosen for herself is her friendship with Avery, the out-of-towner who showed up on the saddest day of her life―unpretentious and decidedly un-Southern―with a funeral casserole in hand.
Bit believes she can escape her grandmother’s controlling grip once and for all by moving somewhere where she is the only Nina Enloe listed: New York. Yet her world is turned upside down when an unexpected loss forces her to leave her new life in the city and return to Erob, where she must face everything―and everyone―she left behind. In the process, Bit discovers her true identity, learns the hard lessons of acceptance and forgiveness, finds herself falling in love in unexpected places, and finds comfort in the secrets of rainy days.
Leslie Hooton, author of Before Anyone Else, brings her signature wit and Southern charm to the page again in this triumphant coming-of-age story.
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Book details
- Author
- Leslie Hooton
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Women
Fiction › Southern
Fiction › Literary - Topics
- women's fiction · southern fiction · coming of age · self-discovery · female friendship · small town life · finding your place · Alabama
- ISBN-13
- 9781684427055 (Hardcover)9781684427049 (Paperback)
About the author
LESLIE HOOTON is the author of three novels. Her recent books include After Everyone Else, The Secret of Rainy Days and Before Anyone Else.
Her debut novel Before Anyone Else received a Zibby nomination. Hooton has also had essays published in Moms Don't Have Time to Grieve and has an upcoming essay in Newsweek.
Having limited use of her right side from birth, and having undergone numerous surgeries throughout her life, Hooton has developed a keen perspective on human behavior, which she brings to her fiction with humor and heart. She composes each of her novels by dictation and has attended the Sewanee Writers Conference for many years.