Oliver’s Song

Oliver’s Song: Della Boudreaux, a recovering alcoholic, estranged from her family, pulls herself up from ruin and onto the road of redemption. After earning a law degree from Tulane, she returns to Mobile, Alabama and establishes her new office at the foot of Mobile’s historic Bankhead Tunnel. Her first client, a young jazz pianist named Ollie Fitzsimmons, presents her with a mystery-why has a bass case with a haul of illegal drugs been left in Ollie’s care? And why is there an old violin stuffed in the case along with the drugs?Della Boudreaux is a survivor-wise, witty, and often inspiring. Oliver’s Song offers plenty of surprises and takes traditional women’s fiction in a few new directions.

Linda Busby Parker is the author of Seven Laurels, a literary novel that won the James Jones First Novel Award and the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. She has had short pieces published in Writer’s Digest, The Writer, Big Muddy, Provincetown Arts, Oracle, and Confluence. Her book reviews have appeared in The San Diego Union Tribune, The Mobile Press Register, 2nd and Church (a magazine for writers), First Draft, and Alabama Writers Forum. She has served as a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers Conference and as a Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf. She teaches creative writing at the University of South Alabama and serves as a mentor in a non-degree, low-residency writing program at Middle Tennessee State University.