The Painted Table

Suzanne Field is celebrating her novel The Painted Table with a beautiful hand-painted table giveaway!

One winner will receive:

• A beautiful hand-painted table (see it here: http://etsy.me/15L90cD)
• The Painted Table by Suzanne Field

Enter today by clicking one of the icons below. But hurry, the giveaway ends on January 18th. Winner will be announced January 20th on Thomas Nelson’s Facebook Page.

Don’t miss a moment of the fun; enter today and be sure to stop by the TNZ Facebook Page on the 20th to see if you won.

About the book The Painted Table: 

A beautiful heirloom ingrained with family memory has become a totem of a life Saffee would rather forget—a childhood disrupted by her mother’s mental illness.
Saffee does not want the table. By the time she inherits the object of her mother’s obsession, the surface is thick with haphazard layers of paint, and heavy with unsettling memories.

After a childhood spent watching her mother slide steadily into insanity, painting and re-painting the ancient table, Saffee has come to fear that seeds of psychosis may lie dormant within her. But as an adult with a family of her own, Saffee must confront her mother’s torment if she wants to defend herself against it.

Traversing four generations over the course of a century, The Painted Table is an epic portrait of inherited memory, proclivity, and guilt. It is a sprawling narrative affirmation that a family artifact—like a family member—can bear the marks of one’s entire past . . . as well as intimations of one’s redemption.

Purchase your copy: http://ow.ly/rIosh

About the author: Suzanne Field, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, has taught English as a Second Language in China, Ukraine, and Hawaii. She has also been a magazine editor and home-school teacher. She and her husband have five children and divide their time between Kansas and Hawaii where she is a tutor and mentor.

Learn more about Suzanne at:https://www.facebook.com/SuzanneFieldThePaintedTable

My thoughts on The Painted Table

 I am no stranger to mental illness having worked as an RN on a mental health unit.  I came into this book knowing that there was going to be someone that wasn’t quite all there and wondering who/why/ and if I’d find out.  I am a sucker for knowing the whole story and why they are the way they are.  I find the story of the table a wonderful story.  

It has such a history and a wonderful heritage.  Such love has been around that table.  Now it is abused at the hands of the owner, an owner who has problems of the mind that focus around the table.  It is now up to that owner’s daughter to help herself, her mother, and the table.  She must come to terms with who she is and why she is who she is before she can come to terms with the table and what it has to do with her future.  I was pleased with how the book ended.  Sapphire is a wonderfully strong character and definitely one he deserves such a rich legacy as the table.