Spotlight and Giveaway: Fallen Land by Taylor Brown

Spotlight and Giveaway: Fallen Land by Taylor BrownFallen Land by Taylor Brown
Published by Macmillan on January 12th 2016
Genres: Fiction, Historical, Literary
Pages: 288
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Fallen Land is Taylor Brown's debut novel set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward. Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan. Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging the land, leaving destruction in their wake. Ava and Callum have only each other in the world and their remarkable horse, Reiver, who carries them through the destruction that is the South. Pursued relentlessly by a murderous slave hunter, tracking dogs, and ruthless ex-partisan rangers, the couple race through a beautiful but ruined land, surviving on food they glean from abandoned farms and the occasional kindness of strangers. In the end, as they intersect with the scorching destruction of Sherman's March, the couple seek a safe haven where they can make a home and begin to rebuild their lives. Dramatic and thrillingly written with an uncanny eye for glimpses of beauty in a ravaged landscape, Fallen Land is a love story at its core, and an unusually assured first novel by award-winning young author Taylor Brown.

Hello, dear readers! I’m excited to kick off the week with a giveaway! Fallen Land is Taylor Brown’s debut novel, and it’s an epic love story set during the Civil War. It’s been getting a lot of buzz this month- it’s an Indie Next pick and an Okra pick (the best of Southern literature). I personally can’t wait to dive in. And today my friends at St. Martin’s Press are offering up a copy to one lucky reader!

Check out an excerpt of Fallen Land here.

Listen to the first two chapters:

 

About the Author:

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Photo credit: Harry Taylor

Taylor Brown grew up on the Georgia coast. He has lived in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and the mountains of Western North Carolina. His fiction has appeared in more than twenty publications, including The Baltimore Review, The North Carolina Literary Review, and storySouth. He is the recipient of the Montana Prize in Fiction, and was a finalist in both the Machigonne Fiction Contest and the Doris Betts Fiction PrizeAn Eagle Scout, he lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. Fallen Land is his first novel.

Find Taylor: Author’s Website * Twitter * Facebook * Goodreads * On Tour

Giveaway! 

One (1) winner receives:

A copy of Fallen Land

Giveaway open to US/Canada addresses only, to ages 18 and up

Prizing provided by St. Martin’s Press.

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3 thoughts on “Spotlight and Giveaway: Fallen Land by Taylor Brown

  1. Sandy S. says:

    I have just started to read historical fiction last year and just can’t seem to get enough of them. I finished reading the Madman’s Daughter series last year which was fantastic! I also loved The Wager and just couldn’t quit talking about this book, I even bought a couple copies of it, to pass around.

  2. […] by Taylor Brown – This is a Civil War era love story in the vein of Cold Mountain. I’m giving away a copy and today’s the last day to enter if you’re […]

  3. MarthaE says:

    I love Civil War era stories. Thanks for sharing this.

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