The Daylily Hill
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Set in the old South, it is the Spring of 1961, and we find Madeline Tyler and her two best friends, Ellie Jo Johnson, and Olivia Chaplin, having just graduated from high school in Griffin, Georgia. Daylily Hill will take you along as the three girls search for a better life than rural Georgia can ever offer up. Meet the men, Bart Whitley, and Nick Elliott, who will impact the girl's lives in ways they would never have imagined. One will even introduce them to the wild and wooly world of used cars and Nascar racing. Rout for them on their search for the good life, glory with them as they achieve the success they so desire, and cry with them when tragedy comes knocking at their door. Daylily Hill will take your from rural Georgia in the fifties into the world of today that at times will have you holding your breath, cheering wildly, or grabbing your hankie. A modern day, Gone With the Wind, with the battlefields the Nascar tracks of today, and love lost, only to be found, Daylily Hill is a saga that will hold you spellbound right up to the last page.
Elaine Taylor Whitman lives in historical Corydon, Indiana, twenty minutes out of Louisville, Kentucky. Elaine attended Evansville University and Indiana University, Southeast. She would later join forces with her husband in a used-car, on-the-lot financing, business in Corydon that has been in business for over sixty years. Elaine is the author of A Kentucky Boy, a story of her father, and his twelve siblings growing up in the hills and hollers of, Kentucky, as well as A Christmas Kitty and Christmas Poetry with Elaine.
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Madeline Tyler and her two best friends, Ellie Jo Johnson and Olivia Chaplin, have just graduated from high school in Griffin, Georgia, in the spring of 1961. In search of a better life than rural Georgia offers, the girls set off in the pursuit of their dreams--but it isn’t long before life steps in and derails their plans.
Madeline’s dreams of attending college are cut short by the deteriorating health of her father, and she finds herself returning home to help out with her family’s needs. Ellie and Olivia both enroll in beauty school, making a start only to see tragedy strike, ending the dreams of one in a heartbeat. Meanwhile, Madeline meets Bart Richmond, a charismatic used-car dealer and wannabe NASCAR driver who likes fast women and faster cars--and he has his sights set on her. To complicate matters further, Nick Elliott, Bart’s married friend and owner of Griffin’s cotton mills, can’t get Ellie out of his mind after watching her win the local Miss Iris contest. Only time will tell how the two men will impact the friends’ lives.
Set in the South in the 1960s, this saga tells stories of love lost and found for three young women whose lives are forever changed.
About the Author
Elaine Taylor Whitman has worked in the family business, Whitman Auto Sales, Inc., for more than thirty-five years. She is also the author of A Kentucky Boy, sharing the life and times of her father growing up in Kentucky, as well as a number of children’s books and poetry collections. She currently lives in Corydon, Indiana.