It, Leaving Cold Sassy, was apparently published unfinished, but with her notes, in 1992. She started it, but died of a heart attack in 1990 before finishing it.
It was so successful that her readers pleaded for more, for a sequel, that is. Born in 1924, she didn’t publish Cold Sassy Tree, which was her only completed novel, until 1984. From what I’ve read in Wikipedia, Olive Ann Burns was another late bloomer (albeit not an Australian one of course). As I explained in my post last year on Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees, we are slowly listening to some of the audiobooks we gave Mr Gums’ mother in the last years of her life, and have just finished Olive Ann Burn’s epic-length, Cold Sassy Tree.
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