Velva Jean Learns to Drive

Velva Jean Learns to Drive

404 pages
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Published: 4 May 2009
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ISBN: 9780452289451

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Plume

Publication date: 28 July 2009

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In this spellbinding debut, Velva Jean Hart finds true love-and then risks everything to follow her dreams.
Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.
Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world". Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher. As their tumultuous love story unfolds, Velva Jean must choose between keeping her hard-won home and pursuing her dream of singing in the Grand Ole Opry.