All right," Bailey said, "but get this: this is the only time we're going to stop for anything like this. This is the one and only time."

All right, Miss," the grandmother said. "Just remember that the next time you want me to curl your hair." I think Ms Ashley missed her calling, whilst her romantic comedies are actually pretty good I think her Gothic horror could be even better - judging by the excerpts in this book attributed to our heroine Cass Leigh. They certainly have the ring of authenticity of the genre and,in some cases I was more interested in how that story worked out than in Cass's story. I was a gospel singer for a while," The Misfit said. "I been most everything. Been in the arm service both land and sea, at home and abroad , been twict married, been an undertaker, been with the railroads, plowed Mother Earth, been in a tornado, seen a man burnt alive oncet," and he looked up at the children's mother and the little girl who were sitting close together, their faces white and their eyes glassy; "I even seen a woman flogged," he said.A good heart is hard to find is a lovely Trisha Ashley book. Trisha has been in my list of favourite authors for some time now, and I love all her books. I really enjoyed this book. Got me it wasn’t my most favourite of Trisha books. But I did really enjoy it in any case. As always it was well written and it was mixed with love, friendship, hard work, whit and Trishas unmistakable ability to write a great book. Ain't she cute?" Red Sam's wife said , leaning over the counter. "Would you like to come be my little girl?" If I were a little boy," said the grandmother, "I wouldn't talk about my native state that way. Tennessee has the mountains and Georgia has the hills."

Two fellers come in here last week," Red Sammy said, "driving a Chrysler. It was a old beat-up car but it was a good one and these boys looked all right to me. Said they worked at the mill and you know I let them fellers charge the gas they bought? Now why did I do that?" Once", he corrected. "We seen it happen. Try their car and see will it run, Hiram," he said quietly to the boy with the gray hat. Trisha Ashley writes with remarkable wit and originality - one of the best writers around' KATIE FFORDE, author of A Springtime Affair Yes mam," he said, "finest people in the world." When he smiled he showed a row of strong white teeth. " God never made a finer woman than my mother and my daddy's heart was pure gold," he said. The boy with the red sweat shirt had come around behind them and was standing with his gun at his hip. The Misfit squatted down on the ground. "Watch them children, Bobby Lee," he said. "You know they make me nervous ." He looked at the six of them huddled together in front of him and he seemed to be embarrassed as if he couldn't think of anything to say.The grandmother shrieked. She scrambled to her feet and stood staring. "You're The Misfit!" she said. "I recognized you at once!" A Good Heart (UK 12-inch single vinyl disc). Feargal Sharkey. Virgin Records. 1985. VS 808-12. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) As soon as the children saw they could move their arms and legs, they scrambled out of the car, shouting, "We've had an ACCIDENT!" The grandmother was curled up under the dashboard, hoping she was injured so that Bailey's wrath would not come down on her all at once. The horrible thought she had had before the accident was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee. I was really looking forward to this book as so enjoy the author but wasn't one of her best I still enjoyed it and was full of second chances and loves affairs and can they work through that. I did find at times it lost its thread in the story and wasn't as good as usual but I still enjoyed it. Cass has been having a love affair with a married man for years and she's realised she is in her forties and hasn't settled down and had children and is her time running out. Max will not leave his wife as she had an accident and is disabled and he has an affair with her but she suddenly wonders if he's the man for her. His wife dies while they are away for a year and she realises she's not right with him but who does she think is best. Is it Jason a long term friend but she isn't sure then there is Dante who she strangely meets on a dark night and he's living in a new haunted manor. She realises she needs to go for someone and settle down but who is best for her.

After they had turned around and were headed toward the dirt road, the grandmother recalled other points about the house, the beautiful glass over the front doorway and the candle-lamp in the hall. John Wesley said that the secret panel was probably in the fireplace. The children's mother had begun to make heaving noises as if she couldn't get her breath. "Lady," he asked, "would you and that little girl like to step off yonder with Bobby Lee and Hiram and join your husband?" It's not much farther," the grandmother said and just as she said it, a horrible thought came to her. The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up, upsetting her valise in the corner. The instant the valise moved, the newspaper top she had over the basket under it rose with a snarl and Pitty Sing, the cat, sprang onto Bailey's shoulder.The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy . He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table, bent over the orange sports section of the Journal. "Now look here, Bailey," she said, "see here, read this," and she stood with one hand on her thin hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head. "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did."