![]() ![]() Miss Julia has already traded her late husband's Buick for a sportier model and is ready to settle into a decorous, quiet life when there's a knock at the door. The first novel, "Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind," released in 1999, told the story of Miss Julia Springer, newly widowed after 44 years of decorous, childless marriage to the town banker in the (fictional) western North Carolina community of Abbotsville. Telling the story of the lady with the pocketbook, though, would send her into the regional best-seller lists. Ross, an empty-nester teaching at the University of North Carolina Asheville, had written a couple of murder mysteries and a historical novel, "The Pilgrimage," with modest success. "And I wanted to know that woman's story." Something told me this woman had never had children, and she was feeling rather awkward. "It was of an older woman in a raincoat, with a pocketbook in her hand, and she was holding a little boy's hand. ‘I think the first thing that happened was, I had this image in my head," said Ann B. ![]()
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