Shirley Ann Grau is one of those rare writers who create a world, draw the reader
into it, and make him somehow happy there, no matter what goes on One comes to the novels
end with a sense of loss, and leaves that world with reluctance. Newsweek

Abigail was the last keeper of the house, the last to know the Howland familys secrets. Now, in
the name of all her brothers and sisters, she must take her bitter revenge on the small-minded
Southern town that shamed them, persecuted them, but could never destroy them.

Shirley Ann Grau is a major American author whose works are often set in New Orleans and Louisianas
Creole region. She often reflects the isolated bayous and their French-speaking residents, but her fiction
is equally at home with the fiercely independent people of small Southern towns or the sophisticated life
of the New Orleans upper class. The Keepers of the House won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1965.


Anna Fields has found her true home behind the microphone after beginning her career on the stage in Washington, D.C. She has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards and won the coveted Audie Award in 2004.