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Ann Boyd: A Novel

Author
William Harben
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
9 hours 19 minutes
ISBN
9781836100584
Published
12 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • social ostracism
  • Southern society
  • public shame
  • female resilience
  • moral hypocrisy
  • community judgment
  • pride and dignity
  • past scandal
  • personal independence
  • redemption

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Proud, independent Ann Boyd is shunned by her Southern community after a long-past scandal, then publicly humiliated at church by Brother Bazemore. Gossip, betrayal, and isolation press hard while her history with Chester still haunts a fight for dignity and survival alone. Fierce resolve against a society eager to judge. Spoken as when Ann Boyd still asks what a woman keeps when the town has already decided her story.

Author

William Harben (1858–1919) mapped the emotional weather of rural Georgia — novels of land, loyalty, and the hard bargains of family life in a changing South. He wrote with an insider's affection for mountain and plantation communities, and with a clear eye for rivalry, redemption, and the cost of pride.

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