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Sweet Tea Tuesdays
Ashley Farley
Women's Fiction
Paperback & ebook, 306 pagesThree friends met every Tuesday for twenty-six years. And then they stopped.
From the author of the bestselling Sweeney Sisters Series comes a novel of friendship, family and hope....
When new next-door neighbors Georgia, Midge, and Lula first assembled on Georgia’s porch in Charleston for sweet tea, they couldn’t have known their gathering was the beginning of a treasured tradition. For twenty-six years they have met on Tuesdays at four o’clock, watching the seasons change and their children grow up, supporting each other in good times and in bad. With their ambitions as different as their personalities, these best friends anticipate many more years of tea time. And then, one Tuesday, Georgia shares news that brings their long-standing social hour to an abrupt halt. And that’s only the beginning as unraveling secrets threaten to alter their friendship forever.
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About the Author
Ashley Farley is the author of the bestselling series, the Sweeney Sisters Series. Ashley writes books about women for women. Her characters are mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives facing real-life issues. Her goal is to keep you turning the pages until the wee hours of the morning. If her story stays with you long after you've read the last word, then she's done her job.
Excerpt:
Lula
ripped a piece of paper towel off the roll mounted under the cabinet and mopped
the sweat from her brow. She wadded it up, tossed it into the trash can, and
tore off two more sheets. She lifted her cotton blouse, and stuffed the paper
towel in the damp spots under both breasts. Eek! She really needed to do
something about her soft doughy midsection that was getting softer and doughier
by the day in spite of her active life. She served meals at homeless shelters
and tutored at after school programs for underprivileged children. She tended
her perennial garden, cleaned her house from top to bottom once a week, and
spent hours on her feet in the kitchen cooking for her family and the sick
folks who belonged to her church.
So many
of her friends had gone gaga over physical fitness. Midge, her next-door
neighbor to her left, pounded the pavement every morning running no fewer than
three miles; and Georgia, her neighbor on the other side, attended yoga classes
several times a week. The gals in her bridge and book clubs talked incessantly
about the exercise classes they attended—spinning and core barre, hot yoga,
Pilates, and total body conditioning. Wasn’t boot camp for the Marines? Sixty
is the new fifty, blah blah blah. In Lula’s case fifty-five was the new sixty-five
and she was darn proud of it. Walking Pooh to the stop sign at the end of the
street and back three times a day offered ample exertion. Anything extra might
cause her ticker to tock.
Lula
heard her cell phone ringing in a distant part of the house. She froze,
listening. But her oldest daughter had
already hung up by the time Lula located the phone wedged between the sofa
cushions. Brooke knew better than to call her on her cell phone. Lula despised
modern technology. She preferred paperback copies over e-books. She wanted her
mail delivered by the mailman. And she would rather read a road map than listen
to an automated voice on a GPS instructing her where to go. One day all the
electronic devices would explode at once and set the world on fire. She laughed
out loud at the vision of throngs of tourists walking the downtown streets of
Charleston with flaming cell phones pressed to their ears. She’d been having
the strangest thoughts lately.
Ashley Farley is the author of the bestselling series, the Sweeney Sisters Series. Ashley writes books about women for women. Her characters are mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives facing real-life issues. Her goal is to keep you turning the pages until the wee hours of the morning. If her story stays with you long after you've read the last word, then she's done her job.
After her brother died in 1999 of an accidental overdose, she turned to writing as a way of releasing her pent-up emotions. She wrote SAVING BEN in honor of Neal, the boy she worshiped, the man she could not save.
Ashley is a wife and mother of two college-aged children. She grew up in the salty marshes of South Carolina, but now lives in Richmond, Virginia, a city she loves for its history and traditions.
Ashley loves to hear from her readers. Feel free to visit her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ashleywfarley or twitter.com/ashleywfarley.
Tour Schedule
May 1st: Launch
May 2nd: The Silver Dagger Scriptorium & Nicole's Book Musings
May 3rd: Hearts & Scribbles & Deal Sharing Aunt
May 4th: It's All About the Romance, Rainy Day Reviews & Falling Leaves
May 5th: Brooke Blogs & Cinnamon Cindy's Book Blog
May 7th: Sylv.net & Rockin' Book Reviews
May 8th: Grand Finale
Tour Giveaway
- 1 winner will receive a $25 Amazon eGift Card (open internationally)
- Ends May 12th
