The Peach Keeper

The Peach Keeper is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by Sarah Addison Allen

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

BANTAM BOOKS and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Allen, Sarah Addison.

The peach keeper: a novel / Sarah Addison Allen.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-553-90813-8

1. Family secrets—Fiction. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology)

in women—Fiction. 3. North Carolina—Fiction.

4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3601.L4356P43 2011

813′.6—dc22 2010047828

www.bantamdell.com

Jacket design: Kathleen DiGrado

Jacket images: © Irene Lamprakou/Trevillion Images (woman),

© Lee Avison/Trevillion Images (tree),

© Joan Kocak/Trevillion Images (field)

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