That backdrop inspired both The Angels of Morgan Hill and The Good Dream and I hope many other future novels! SheKnows: The cover is beautiful - what’s the story behind it?ĭonna VanLiere: There’s a long-held superstition that if you hung bottles from tree branches that as evil spirits passed through the trees on the wind that they’d be trapped inside the bottle. My grandmother’s house faced the hills I write about in The Good Dream, and when I was little my cousins and I would walk down earthen stairs to the railroad tracks and head to the creek or to the center of the community where we could still go to the general store and buy a soda or candy bar (it’s now a video store). My parents grew up there in a time where people made little money but had everything they needed because they were self-sufficient as gardeners and farmers and relied on their neighbors and family. Why now? And what inspired you to write this book?ĭonna VanLiere: I had written a novel called The Angels of Morgan Hill a few years that was also set in this same location and era. SheKnows: The Good Dream is your first full-length novel. A time & place where most would let secrets stay that way. SheKnows: You’re active on Twitter ( Tweet us about your novel, The Good Dream, (in 140 characters or fewer, of course!)ĭonna VanLiere: A woman battles ignorance & hatred in 1950 TN to save a child she doesn’t know.
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