Plantation

A Lowcountry Tale

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

Narrated by: Susie Breck

When Caroline Wimbley Levine learns that her mother, Miss Lavinia, has supposedly gone mad, she leaves the big city bustle of Manhattan and returns to Tall Pines Plantation. Caroline originally left Tall Pines to escape her feisty, eccentric mother and her drunken brother, Trip, but when Miss Lavinia dies, Caroline is forced to come to terms with her family's troubled history as well as her failing relationship with her husband. As Caroline reminisces about her past rebelliousness and her childhood, she realizes that her father's sudden and tragic death many years before served as a catalyst for the family's disintegration. Caroline and Trip also learn that their seemingly selfish and self-assured mother was not so uncaring after all.©2001 Dorothea Benton Frank (P)2006 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Excellent!

The reader gave an excellent performance! She made me feel as if I were watching each event happen. I would listen to her read any time. She really brought this book to life.

Tall Pines

I truly enjoyed this book. It was actually one of the shorter books by Dorothea Benton Frank but it’s jam packed full of wonderful descriptions that she’s famous for. And Susie Break did an amazing job with her narration. Her voice was captivating and made her Southern accent was spot on. Thank you.

Very Southern, but Edisto is mispronounced!

I can’t believe someone with this string of a southern accent doesn’t know that it’s the Edisto (ED-is-to) not e-DIS-to. I could overlook it the first time, but to go on and on and eventually crown her brother King of the Edisto mispronounced was irritating to a genuine South Carolinian.
Story was good, though! DBF’s later works are better, but I enjoyed hearing her first.

Enjoyed this story

I enjoyed this story very much but the reading of the book left me to cringe each time the name of our black river in South Carolina was mispronounced. I am a South Carolinian born and bred. I have kayaked down the (Ed-is-toe) river an marveled at its onyx black water. The reader of the book should research the correct pronunciation.

Family Matters

The storyline of this book emphasizes the importance of supporting family and demonstrating unity, forgiveness, and love in times of crisis and as we leave this life. Well written and heartwarming.