Eva McCall
is the granddaughter of Lucy Davenport Carpenter, with whom she lived for 19 years. Edge of Heaven is based on her grandmother's stories of her early years in the late 1800s, among the mountains of northeast Georgia & western North Carolina

Eva graduated from Pfeiffer College in Misenheimer, married George McCall, & moved to Flint, Michigan. There George worked for General Motors & Eva became a beautician. After their three children were grown & flown, Eva returned to her first love, writing. She attends writing workshops, & is a member of several professional writers groups.

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Edge of Heaven
ISBN: 0914875272 - 1997 Historical Images

When her father gives eighteen-year old Lucy Davenport to Holman Carpenter as a bride in exchange for a mysterious favor, her life changes forever. Holman takes her from her isolated Georgia life to his farm in the North Carolina mountains to care for his thirteen children.

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Amazon's price is: $14.95

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Children of the Mountain
ISBN: 0914875213 - 2002 Historical Images

For those Readers who loved Eva McCall's Edge of Heaven in which she introduced us to her grandmother, it is a happy day this author has continued her story.

Later in Lucy Davenport's life she must fight to continue to live on Carpenter Mountain in Appalachia, after Holman's death & their children disperse.

Children of the Mountain picks up decades later, after Holman & Lucy have built a new home, raised their own passel of sons & watched them all leave home with wives & for new lives.

Read a review of this book by Rebecca Brown, The Editor.

No longer available

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Lucy's Recipes for Mountain Living
ISBN: 0914875396 - Bright Mountain Books; (August 2002)

Not actually a cookbook, Lucy's Recipes for Mountain Living is a collaboration between the Eva & her sister as they recall how Lucy Carpenter fed & took care of her mountain family. A delicious stew of stories!


Amazon's price is: $9.00