Little Tea

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Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour & Giveaway for Little Tea by Claire Fullerton, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Little Tea

Author: Claire Fullerton

Publisher: Firefly Southern Fiction

Release Date: May 1, 2020

Genre: Southern Fiction

Southern Culture … Old Friendships … Family Tragedy

One phone call from Renny to come home and “see about” the capricious Ava and Celia Wakefield decides to overlook her distressful past in the name of friendship.

For three reflective days at Renny’s lake house in Heber Springs, Arkansas, the three childhood friends reunite and examine life, love, marriage, and the ties that bind, even though Celia’s personal story has yet to be healed. When the past arrives at the lake house door in the form of her old boyfriend, Celia must revisit the life she’d tried to outrun.

As her idyllic coming of age alongside her best friend, Little Tea, on her family’s ancestral grounds in bucolic Como, Mississippi unfolds, Celia realizes there is no better place to accept her own story than in this circle of friends who have remained beside her throughout the years. Theirs is a friendship that can talk any life sorrow into a comic tragedy, and now that the racial divide in the Deep South has evolved, Celia wonders if her friendship with Little Tea can triumph over history.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Claire Fullerton hails from Memphis, TN. and now lives in Malibu, CA. with her husband and 3 German shepherds. She is the author of Mourning Dove, a coming of age, Southern family saga set in 1970’s Memphis. Mourning Dove is a five-time award winner, including the Literary Classics Words on Wings for Book of the Year, and the Ippy Award silver medal in regional fiction ( Southeast.) Claire is also the author of Dancing to an Irish Reel, a Kindle Book Review and Readers’ Favorite award winner that is set on the west coast of Ireland, where she once lived. Claire’s first novel is a paranormal mystery set in two time periods titled, A Portal in Time, set in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. She is a contributor to the book, A Southern Season with her novella, Through an Autumn Window, set at a Memphis funeral ( because something always goes wrong at a Southern funeral.)

Little Tea is Claire’s 4th novel and is set in the Deep South. It is the story of the bonds of female friendship, healing the past, and outdated racial relations. Little Tea is the August selection of the Pulpwood Queens, a Faulkner Society finalist in the William Wisdom international competition, and on the long list of the Chanticleer Review’s Somerset award. She is represented by Julie Gwinn of the Seymour Literary Agency. https://www.clairefullerton.com

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TOUR GIVEAWAY

(1) winner will receive an ebook copy of Little Tea and $5 Amazon gift card!

Be sure to check out each stop on the tour for more chances to win. Full tour schedule linked below. Giveaway will begin at midnight June 8, 2020 and last through 11:59 PM EST on June 15, 2020. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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My Thoughts on Little Tea:

This story was a bit different than I expected.  The characters were engaging though a little heavy on the alcohol and cigarettes for my taste.  They had a lot of social/racial issues throughout the book.  One character has issues with her marriage and is having an affair during their girl get together.  

I have to say that at first I was confused why this book was titled Little Tea.  Yes, she’s a character in the book and yes she’s a good one and she intrigued me, but she’s not a central character in the storyline.  More a character we see in flashbacks.  It wasn’t until the end that I figured it all out and understood why her name is the name of the book. 

Honestly, I’d love to have a book to read with Little Tea as the central character. 

Other warnings for this book.  It does contain sex though it’s not drawn out and detailed, more alluded to.  There are people in states of undress though again it doesn’t go into detail.  Affairs, Alchohol, Cigarettes.  Racial Tension.  Segregation and Prejudice of the south.

All in all, I did enjoy this book though it took me a while to get into it.  The book is not a fast read.  It was a leisurely stroll type of reading where I’d set it down and then come back later for more. 

This is not a Christian Fiction title but rather a clean fiction and you can tell this.  But it is a good book and I think you’ll enjoy it if you can get past the things mentioned above.  The author writes well and kept me entertained.  I did enjoy the story.  Not sure I’d read it again though. 

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from JustRead Publicity Tours. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.