At Home on Ladybug Farm

by Donna Ball

Overview

From the award-winning author of A Year on Ladybug Farm comes the continuing story of three women who learn what it takes to turn a house into a home.

A year after taking the chance of a lifetime, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget are still trying to make a home for themselves on the newly-renovated Ladybug Farm. Life in the Shenandoah Valley is picturesque, but filled with unexpected trials? such as the introduction of two young people into the ordered life the women have tried to build for themselves.

As the walls of the old house reveal their secrets and the lives of those who have gone before begin to unfold, the cobbled-together household starts to disintegrate into chaos. And when one of their members is threatened by a real crisis, they must all come together to fight for the roots they?ve laid down, the hopes they share, and the family they?ve become.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425229781
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/06/2009
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	102,012
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Donna Ball has published more than 80 works of fiction since 1982, both under her own name and under pseudonyms.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Donna Ball has created a delightful world in her Ladybug Farm novels. Her characters are lively and endearing, and readers will feel a longing to join the girls on the front porch in the evenings as they reminisce about the day's activities."
-Fresh Fiction

"At Home on Ladybug Farm is a wonderful novel with wonderful characters working together to turn their new house into a home."
-ReaderToReader.com

Editorial Reviews

"Donna Ball has created a delightful world in her Ladybug Farm novels. Her characters are lively and endearing, and readers will feel a longing to join the girls on the front porch in the evenings as they reminisce about the day's activities."
-Fresh Fiction

"At Home on Ladybug Farm is a wonderful novel with wonderful characters working together to turn their new house into a home."
-ReaderToReader.com

From the Publisher

Proving true friendship can create fierce family ties, Ball's exceptional sequel to 2009's A Year on Ladybug Farm updates the trials, tribulations and triumphs of three single women of a certain age struggling to renovate Blackwell Farms, a rundown Virginia estate. A year has passed since Lindsay Wright, Cici Burke and Bridget Tindale arrived from Baltimore to live on the farm. Adding joy and sometimes frustration to the household are crusty old housekeeper Ida Mae; Cici's 20-year-old daughter Lori, who doesn't want to return to college in California; and Noah Clete, a fatherless 15-year-old Lindsay wants to adopt. Ball's bright examination of their efforts to rehab a place that was burned down during the Civil War, rebuilt, and then served as a winery, a home for WWII military wives and a creamery known for its cheeses, is absolutely delectable. Injecting extra zing are Ball's fascinating flashbacks, while Noah's transformation from misfit to responsible teen is another sweet note in this entertaining treatise of how love overcomes adversity. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly