Anne Lafferty is the author of two lyrical novels, Pared To The Bone and its sequel, Hawkins Creek. These novels reflect intense living off the grid in a wild place, survivalist, living off the land; the conflict and beauty of love and ultimate loss.
‘As I stand here in the wet, sloppy snow, in the low light of the late winter sun, I can rehash to you once more the jaded story of love plus un-forgiveness, that old tale you’ve all heard too many times to care. A story featuring the faithless, rocky hills we presumed to live on, a quarreling of willful wind and wolves, the duplicity of dead- cold winters, the hard-to-get scramble of wood and water and food. Put your finger on a Wisconsin map, choose that hard-hearted space between bleak wind-scoured farmhouses and stony, unrelenting toil, and you have landed. Ed Gein lived around here, if that’s any consolation.
And while we're at it, let’s call it a place of wild, winsome heart’s connection and abrupt, harsh, haunting beauty..... a passion of purple blossom and sweetness under a downy blanket of sky blue……………a fickle, feckless love lost forever……….’
From Hawkins Creek.
Anne Lafferty is also the author of a book of short stories, Let’s All Go To The Dump, and two ebooks, Generation Rex and Good Lookin’ Old Women.
Anne lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.