A Novel Siddons A. R. (Anne Rivers) creator us New York Ballantine Books 1988 eng 590 p. Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable is a beautiful burning flame of a woman, a woman of great passion and terrible need. Sheppard Gibbs Bondurant III, Lucy`s cousin and lifelong confidant, is a man turned recluse because of his own fatal feelings. Their mesmerizing story begins on the childhood day when Lucy comes to live with Shep`s family in the great house on Peachthree Road. Set in one of the South`s most elite societies, here is a novel that chronicles the rurbulent changes of a great city - and gives us the unforgettable story of the astonishing love and hate between one woman and one man. n/29152 0345362721 101105 20260805123635.0 00000000000041319