{"id":150,"date":"2026-11-06T03:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2026-11-06T03:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:16:52","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/?page_id=150","title":{"rendered":"About The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About The Book<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t

The Novel<\/p>\n\t\t

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My Sweet<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Elisabeth<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t

A Southern novel of love, memory and the secrets a family keeps beneath the moss-hung oaks.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Now on Amazon<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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The Story<\/p>\n\t\t

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Under moss-hung live oaks, at the edge of an old Southern estate, two lives meet in the gold hour between day and dark.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

My Sweet Elisabeth<\/em> is a novel of love, memory and the ties that hold people to a place. As one long Southern summer unfolds, old loyalties are tested, family secrets stir beneath the surface and a single choice begins to echo through the years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

It is a story to read slowly, the way you sit on a porch and watch the light change: tender, haunting and full of the quiet places where the past still lives.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Richard E. Peek Jr.<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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Southern Fiction<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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The American South<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n

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Inside the Novel<\/p>\n\t\t

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the Story<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Theme One<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Love & Longing<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t

A love that grows quietly in the gold hour, and the courage it takes to hold on to something that might not last.<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/article>\n

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Family & Secrets<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Inherited loyalties, unspoken history and the promises one generation leaves for the next to keep or to break.<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/article>\n

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Theme Three<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Memory & Place<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t

An old estate, a stand of live oaks and a slow river: places that remember everything, long after the people have moved on.<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/article>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n

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My Sweet Elisabeth<\/em> was made for long conversations. Here are a few questions to get your group talking:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

  1. Which character changed the most, and what changed them?<\/li>
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    Home \/ About The Book The Novel My Sweet Elisabeth A Southern novel of love, memory and the secrets a family keeps beneath the moss-hung oaks. Buy on Amazon Read the Synopsis Now on Amazon The Story Beneath the Old Oaks Under moss-hung live oaks, at the edge of an old Southern estate, two lives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpeeks.clients-demo-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}