Slow Poison

Slow Poison - Cover

A Novel

by Sheila Bosworth

Voices of the South

336 pages / 5.50 x 8.50 inches / no illustrations

This title is out of print.

Rory Cade is summoned home from her book tour in New York by the housekeeper’s cryptic message: Miss Cade passing. On the turbulent flight back to south Louisiana, Rory finds herself relating her family’s past and its particular, poisonous brew of money, passion, infidelity, alcohol, religion, and Irish insanity. The Cades of Covington—a dashing, drunken father; a mother and stepmother both dead at an early age; three young daughters raised in genteel chaos; a live-in grandmother and fiery maiden aunt. This broken, brave ménage and their attendant circle of friends, lovers, and servants are realized with amazing penetration and deftness in a stirring, stinging survey of the cruel, humorous, unpredictable human heart. 

Sheila Bosworth's second novel, Slow Poison, was published in 1992. Born, raised, and educated in New Orleans, she now lives in Covington, Louisiana.

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