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Charleston native turns to roots, not reality, for first novel
In her first novel, “Charleston,” Margaret Bradham Thornton wanted to dispel the stereotypes associated with women from the South.
Growing up in Charleston, S.C., Thornton said she never heard women referred to as “Southern belles.”
“I think it’s a trumped-up term,” said Thornton, a Palm Beach resident.
“It’s a caricature and a stereotype.
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Southern women get a bad rap. I wanted to write about what was real to me and what I thought was authentic. I wanted to write about the South from the inside out. Friends, who I grew up with, are doctors, lawyers, judges, journalists, painters, some own their own businesses.
They’re not Southern belles.”
Published in July by Ecco Press, “Charleston” was a top seller this summer at both The Palm Beach Book Store on Royal Poinciana Way and the Classic Bookshop on South County Road.
“The novel, set in high-society Charleston, is intriguing in itself,” said Candace Cohen, owner of T