Welcome to the official website of Siggy Patton, author of warm and witty contemporary fiction, including Eleanor Grigson Cleans the House, Francis & the Women, and The Viking Romance Book Club.
She moved for a fresh start. She found a Viking romance book club instead.
When Gretchen Geller trades Brooklyn brownstones for Savannah humidity, she tells herself the change of scenery will do her good. She’ll find a new job soon. She’ll make new friends. She’ll feel like a grown-up, finally.
Then she meets a woman at her gym. Suddenly, Gretchen is swept into a weekly book club devoted to steamy historical romance novels. She finds escapism in the club’s next book, The Brides of the Rocky Isle, complete with brooding warriors and busty heroines who always seem to know exactly what they want. Between laughter, wine, and heated debates over fictional Norsemen, Gretchen begins to feel something she hasn’t in months: at home.
But real-life refuses to follow a tidy plotline. Far away, her fiercely independent mother begins showing early signs of slowing down—forcing Gretchen to confront the complicated, unromantic realities of caring for the people who once cared for you. As fiction and reality collide, Gretchen must decide what kind of heroine she wants to be in her own life….
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Everyone in Eleanor's life seems determined to fix her.
Her late husband had a habit of keeping things—every receipt, every broken lamp—and now the evidence is packed to the rafters. Behind closed doors, Eleanor has managed just fine. Or so she thinks.
But her bossy, overbearing friends aren’t buying it. And neither are her grown children.
When her son Billy arrives, fresh off a lucrative Silicon Valley exit and suddenly armed with too much free time, he declares war on the clutter. But as the rooms are cleared and the past begins to surface, she starts to wonder if Billy’s sudden concern for her is really a distraction from the lonely life he’s built for himself.
Because starting over isn’t just about what you throw away. It’s about what—and who—you decide to keep.
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Francis has spent his life under the control of his overbearing Aunties, in a small hometown that made up its mind about him long ago. Sheltered and underestimated, he has few companions beyond his faithful dog, the Violent Labrador. And even she thinks he needs to get out more.
Then he meets Carmenita. A college student with dreams of becoming a jazz singer like Billie Holiday, Carmenita sees something in Francis no one else ever has. Soon, he lands a job at a struggling car lot, where his quiet attentiveness—honed over years in the company of older women—puts the dealership’s aging customers at ease.
For the first time, Francis glimpses a version of himself that isn’t defined by other people’s expectations. But becoming that person means risking everything: his fragile independence, his first real love, and the only family he’s ever known.
Tender and offbeat, Francis & the Women is a novel about finding the courage it takes to become the person you were meant to be.
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