White, who lives in Atlanta, spent most of her growing-up years in London, but 'hails from a long line of Southerners,' according to her biography A recipe created for this book - the Southern Queen Bee drink - calls for honey among its ingredients, as one might guess. In 'Flight Patterns,' we learn information about china, of course, but also about beekeeping. And I relished it, if only because it made me not her.'Ī strength of White's writing is that she researches places and subjects for each novel.

My mother once told me she never knew that particular sorrow, the sorrow of being ordinary. A hint as to why is in the first chapter, as Georgia explains, 'I wouldn't say that I was particularly happy, or as successful as I'd like to be, but there was nobody in my life to ask me if I were. Georgia, the china expert, prefers a solitary life away from family. (Just the description of her plot makes me want to tour for a second time the china exhibits inside Replacements Ltd. In 'Flight Patterns,' an expert on fine china comes across a rare Limoges bowl that sends her back to her family home, where she had never intended to return. May 29 at the Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St. White will sign copies of her new book in Southern Pines at 2 p.m. To embrace her own life-mistakes and all-she will have to find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past and the secrets she was forced to keep.China - not the country but the wedding gift - is at the core of nationally best-selling writer Karen White's new novel, 'Flight Patterns.' Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing-and unless she finds a way to heal these rifts, she will forever be living vicariously through other people's remnants. She finds solace seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. It's been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed, except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. But then her work as an expert of fine china-especially of Limoges-requires her to return to the one place she swore she'd never revisit. Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people's pasts while trying to forget her own. The New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Glass and coauthor of The Forgotten Room tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind-and to the woman she always wanted to be.

Flight patterns by karen white