'Raw and powerful.' Fannie Flagg, bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe 'With a teeming cast of memorable characters and an often heartbreaking story line, this gracefully written novel is sure to appeal broadly! it is the work of a born storyteller and a good choice for bookclubs.' Booklist 'Expect laughter and tears.' Easy Living, Summer Reading Pick 'Anyone who loves Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird will delight in Swan, the Lake's 11-year-old!This debut novel is so believable one wonders if it's fiction at all. It's all here. Faith. Honesty. Sin. Redemption. A miracle or two. Even a surprise ending. Wingfield's sense of people and place is near-perfect. You know these characters. You have met them.' USA Today 'Wingfield writes complex, believable heroes!with redemption trumping tragedies in scenes ripe with tension and dread.' Publishers Weekly 'With a teeming cast of memorable characters and an often heartbreaking story line, this gracefully written novel is sure to appeal broadly!it is the work of a born storyteller and a good choice for bookclubs.' Booklist 'This is a terrific book and the characters are sensationally good. You will love it' Booksmonthly 'If I could give it more than five stars I would do so without hesitation.' NewBooks magazine 'Guaranteed to warm the cockles of a heart of stone.' Herald Summer Reads 'Readers will lift up their hands in praise of this layered, old-fashioned tale of sin, grace and retribution. "The Homecoming of Samuel Lake" has a supreme cast of characters including a flawed but righteous daddy, a makes-your-skin-crawl villain, and the sassiest, truest girl heroine this side of Scout Finch. Can I get an "Amen"?' Susan Rebecca White, author of A SOFT PLACE TO LAND and BOUND SOUTH 'Jenny Wingfield's richly detailed account of good and evil in 1950s Arkansas will captivate anyone who treasures the values of faith and honesty that are a part of America's rural past. Wingfield's sense of people and place is uncanny. After reading "The Homecoming of Samuel Lake", you too, will believe in miracles.' Sandra Dallas, New York Times best-selling author of PRAYERS FOR SALE and WHITER THAN SNOW

Jenny Wingfield is an accomplished screenwriter. Her credits include The Man in the Moon (starring Reese Witherspoon), as well as The Outsider (starring Naomi Watts). She lives in Texas and this is her first novel.