Everything But the Truth

This is Part 1 of a 4 part novel about a woman born in the backwoods in1900. In those days, women couldn't vote, drink in public, or speak their minds outside of their homes. Most women anyway, but one thing for sure, Margaret Rose Nolan, wasn't most women. Born into north Appalachians piedmont, she knew what she wanted, and it wasn't to live in the backwoods of Alabama surrounded by poverty and ignorance. She didnt care what women were supposed to do or what others thought of her; she followed a single-minded purpose create opportunities for the things she desired. If getting what she wanted required manipulating men, then that was too bad for them. It wasn't her fault men liked her, but she used it and used it well. In those days, women called her a Jezebel. She called them ignorant. She moved from moonshine to champagne, from rowboats to cruise ships, from foolish foothill suitors to societys elite, usually at the expense of others, even her own...