Angie of the Garden

About the Book

Angie of the Garden is a story about a psychiatrist named Hollis SImms. He is an affable individual who is dedicated to his patients, and his family. Hollis is married to a provocative and wealthy woman named Olivia: their irrepressible teenage daughter is named Annabelle. His wife used her considerable resources to purchase the estate called Fairhaven for them to live on. As a boy Hollis found a diary written by a woman named Angie Barton buried in a garden. The journal told of the hardships and deprivations suffered by this woman from Boston as she traveled on the Oregon Trail. She became his first love. One evening as Doctor Simms walked past a garden on the estate he encountered the spirit of Angie Barton. Hollis learns that she worked at Fairhaven as a house servant after returning from the west. He cannot fathom how this adventurous woman could have come to such a station in life. Hollis decided that Angie must have experienced some kind of trauma. During her subsequant appearences he entices her into recounting the long trek westward in order to discover the cause of her malaise. Hollis' obsession with the woman from the past begins to strain his relationships with the living.

About the Author

J.E. Hall is a native of Long Island, NewYork. he is a graduate of the new York Institute of Technology. His interst in politics was very instrumental in shaping his first novel The Wall. Hall's concern for the environment influenced his second novel Two Men With A Mission. His third novel, Angie of the Garden, reflects the author's interest in history. He njoys traveling to the unspoiled places in this wordl. But this author has discovered that a person's most fascinating journeys are often the ones taken with their minds alone. J.E. Hall is currenlty working on his fourth novel.