Today’s #read99women rec comes from sweet Southerner Kristy Woodson Harvey, bestselling author with a genius eye for design.

Kristy Woodson Harvey is the bestselling author of DEAR CAROLINA, LIES AND OTHER ACTS OF LOVE, SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF SIMPLE, THE SECRET TO SOUTHERN CHARM, THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF PARADISE and the forthcoming FEELS LIKE FALLING. Kristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, her work has been optioned for film and her books have received numerous accolades including Southern Living’s Best Reads, Parade’s Most Anticipated Reads and Entertainment Weekly’s Reading Picks. She blogs with her mom Beth Woodson on her award-winning blog, Design Chic, about how creating a beautiful home can be the catalyst for creating a beautiful life. She lives with her husband and son in coastal North Carolina where she is working on her next novel.

Kristy recommends the classic A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN in a great post on her blog where she reflects on how her relationship to the book has changed over time. “I think anyone who has read this book would agree that it’s Francie, Katie’s daughter’s, story,” she writes. “But, more and more, I am fascinated by Katie, by her steadfastness and steadiness, her inner strength, the way she knowingly chose to spend her life in hard work and strife and struggle to marry the love of her life.”

You can read Kristy’s full review of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn here.

And click here for more on Kristy and her books, including FEELS LIKE FALLING, coming April 28, 2020.