THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH is a brilliant novel that captures the end of an era, the vast madness of war, and the courage of a remarkable woman to claim life from the grasp of death itself. Known throughout the country as "The Widow of the South," Carrie McGavock gave her heart first to a stranger, then to a tract of hallowed ground–and became a symbol of a nation’s soul. In an extraordinary debut novel, based on a remarkable true story, Robert Hicks draws an unforgettable, panoramic portrait of a woman who, through love and loss, found a cause. He asks if the cemetery has room for one more.
The man who came to her house as a wounded soldier and left with her heart. Robert Hicks is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Widow of the South and A Separate Country. It is the man she met on the day of the battle that changed everything.
Now, as she walks the rows of the dead, an old soldier appears. Books by Robert Hicks (Author of The Widow of the South) Books by Robert Hicks Robert Hicks Average rating 3. Years before, rather than let someone plow over the field where these young men had been buried, Carrie dug them up and reburied them in her own personal cemetery. In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company.and the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard.
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