After Me - Novel by J. Shep

Description of J. Shep's After Me

When Ellande and Madeleine-Grace visit the family summer house on the Alabaster Coast of Normandy for the first time without their parents, they find themselves growing aware of the importance of their parents' choices in raising them.  Under the care of their beloved Aunt Adèle, they explore their heritage and what their parents stood for while determining the value of customs and traditions of both family and France's stunning Pays de Caux.  In the face of cruelty, carelessness, and shifting values, the siblings must forge through hardships gracefully to learn too young what needs to be carried with them and preserved so that it is available to those who come after.

Format  Paperback

Pages 358

ISBN  979-8-9884643-1-0

Praise for J. Shep's After Me

“I was transported to the beauty of the Alabaster Coast, to the enchantment of youthful innocence, to the sadness of its too early loss.  Then, like a glorious sunrise, we are gifted the “après,” the hope and goodness of “after me.” – Maria Giuseppa, author of R&R:  A Feast of Words

“With meticulous detail and skilled storytelling, Shep transports the reader into the hearts and minds of moving characters and the consequential settings in which they live.  Touching, inspiring, and dramatic, After Me will linger in thought long after the last page.” – Geralyn Hesslau Magrady, author of Lines and When Walls Talk (coming soon)

“an intense narrative of family and intangible inheritance. . . this novel unfolds like a fragrant steeped tea.” – Chanticleer Book Reviews, Five Stars