Billie Standish Was Here by Nancy Crocker

Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Billie forms a friendship with Miss Lydia born out of circumstance, but when Billie faces tragedy, Miss Lydia takes matters into her own hands. They are-except for their elderly neighbor Miss Lydia. Can the love of one woman nearing the end of her life save the life of a young woman just at the beginning of living hers? As relentless rain raises the nearby river, Billie thinks she and her parents are the only people staying in their town and face the threat of flood. Her work has appeared in the American Heritage Anthology, and she is the author of the picture book Betty Lou Blue, published by Dial. She graduated from Columbia College and since then has been acting and writing.

Miss Lydia may look like 'every grandma in the world,' but she's more interesting than anyone Billie has ever met. Nancy Crocker is a native of Missouri who started her career as a singer and appeared with Loretta Lynn at age thirteen. What happens during that time, in that empty town, is a tragedy that Billie can' t bear alone. Adrift and isolated, 11-year-old Billie Marie has no friends and feels invisible to her self-absorbed parents until she meets her neighbor, Miss Lydia. When it looks like a nearby levee might break, and Billie' s elderly neighbor, Miss Lydia, is the only other person besides her family to stick around, a friendship is born out of circumstance. Her parents are too caught up in their own lives, and the only two girls in town her age want nothing to do with her. I have read finished the 280 page book this month. It very well could be the most amazing book in the world. I have been reading this book over and over again and I just can’t put it down.

CAN ONE UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP SAVE A LIFE? Billie Standish has pretty much no one. Billie Standish was Here is Nancy Crocker’s first novel.

Billie Standish Was Here by Nancy Crocker