Eleanor's Song

<p>Award winning author Susan K. Field has released her debut novel <em>Eleanor's Song</em>. A <strong>coming of age</strong>. A <strong>thriller</strong>. Above all a story of redemption and hope.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A car crash in 1927 finds three-month-old Eleanor Owens wailing on the floorboard of a Ford Model T. Amid the menacing torrents of rain her mother lies dead along a Washington highway as the vehicle that caused the accident speeds away and leaves Eleanor orphaned.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Placed in the care of her stern and poverty-stricken grandmother Eleanor endures the challenge of growing up in small rural towns yearning for her mother and another life. By age seventeen Eleanor devises a plan. She intends to join the US Army Nurse Corps. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Get an education. And climb out of poverty.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>her brilliant plan crumbles</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In her despair she impulsively makes a series of calamitous decisions and becomes entrapped in terror abuse and homelessness. </span></p><p>Inspired by true events and set amid the backdrop of the Great Depression World War II and the western migration Eleanor Owens <strong>learns lessons about the ties that make a family strong how to endure and about her own resolve. </strong></p><p>The release of <em>Eleanor's Song</em> is bittersweet for me says Field. While the book is fiction it is inspired by pieces of my mother's life. In September I wanted to give her a finished book but she passed in early July of 2023 at the age of ninety-five before I had a chance to. My mother knew I was writing this novel. I interviewed her extensively over the years. Thus this is dedicated to her and the women who have survived and the women who haven't. May their stories endure.</p><p>Susan K. Field is an author of stories celebrating women. Before she started writing fiction full-time Susan worked in organizational communications championing the voices of those who could not advocate for themselves: homeless and abused animals children with special needs and victims of domestic violence. Based on these experiences she felt called to write Eleanor ' s Song her debut novel.</p><p>Susan holds a master ' s degree in writing. Her nonfiction poetry articles and essays have appeared in literary journals anthologies commercial magazines trade journals and blogs. An excerpt from Eleanor ' s Song entitled A Shadow of a Decision won a Kay Snow Writing Award Short Story category in 2021. </p>