FICTION · GENERAL
Jean Wilson
Also known as: Jenna Lawrence
Jean Gowland Wilson grew up in Chalmette, LA. She was married for more than 50 years to Donald Wilson. She had two children, Jeanne and Carl. She also had two grandchildren, Karissa and Kyle. She was a mother to several dogs in her lifetime as well. She had a big heart to give what she could to make the world a better place for everyone. She loved God, her family, her friends, and books of course! Her last book was written under the pseudonym Jenna Lawrence and was published in 2005.
Most acclaimed
Sweet Dreams
"One snowy New Year's Eve, nine-year-old Massimo wakes up to a long, anguished cry and the disconcerting image of his father being supported by two strangers. Inexplicably, his mother has disappeared, leaving only a vague trail of perfume in his room and her dressing gown bundled up at the foot of his bed. Where has she gone? Will she ever come back? And will Massimo be able to say he's sorry after fighting with her the night before? At turns poignant and funny, Sweet Dreams--already an international sensation--is both the story of a secret that has been kept hidden for forty years and the uplifting tale of a boy who, as he grows into an adult, has to gather the broken pieces of his life and realize that his mother was not the woman he thought she was"--
Kaleidoscope
1934
On the day Joanne Kilbourn retires from her university teaching post, she has a dream about her first husband (murdered many years ago). Soon, she is forced to experience the truth of what, for most of her life, had just been a good closing line for a political speech. The night after Jo and Zack have dinner with Zack's colleague Margot and one of his law firm's biggest clients, the developer Leland Hunter, Jo and Zack's house is blown up. They're at the lake with daughter Taylor and their dogs, but the house is destroyed. And that is only the first of several terrible incidents. It isn't long before Joanne is witness to events far more distressing than even a destroyed home. She begins to understand what it's like to live in a world where she can count on nothing.