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Title: Little Boy Brave

Subtitle: Judith McCain, Book 6

Author: Peggy Holloway

Narrator: Duane Sharp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-15

Publisher: Peggy Holloway

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Billy is eight years old. He has had many hardships in his life. His mama died giving him life; his dad had a hard time coping and started drinking. Out of desperation his dad marries Rose, hoping to have a mother for his son. Rose is very abusive to Billy and fights constantly with his dad. During a camping trip that was planned to bring the family together, the fighting becomes intense. Billy packs up his tent in the middle of the night and runs away, hiking through the hills of Tennessee. Billy is not missed until the next morning. He has many adventures before being reunited with his dad.

Members Reviews:

`You would drive a nun to drink'.

Author Peggy Holloway came to writing late. She has a long and interesting career of teaching mathematics in both the high and college level, working as a geophysicist in a major oil company exploring for oil and gas and working as a counselor/psychotherapist with adults, groups, families, couples and teens. Credential? - a BS in geology, an MCS in mathematics and an MA in Psychology. Her first forays as an author were technical - reports as a geophysicist, research papers in psychology, and letters to authorities while counseling adolescents. She has now written almost twenty novels ranging from romance to paranormal to mysteries and psychological thrillers. She now addresses familial idiosyncrasies and their permutations on children in this very touching new novel.

As is her style Peggy opens her book with a setting that reaches out to the reader and immediately pulls them in to discover where the situation she first describes will lead: `They were fighting again. He couldn't take it. He had to get out. He was only eight years old, but he had to leave. He was going to take care of himself. Throwing everything into his duffle bag, and unzipping his small tent, Billy crawled out and stood listening. "Why do you always have to drink? We can't even go camping without you bringing a bottle?" That was Daddy talking. Mama was a drunk. She was mean. She sometimes hit Billy and screamed at him. "Oh, shut up! You sound like a baby. It's your fault anyway. You would drive a nun to drink, always on me about something." "Keep your voice down. You'll wake Billy. This camping trip was supposed to be something to bring our family together. It was your idea. `Let's take Billy camping, Kenny. Let's get away, get out into nature. It'll be good for us,'" he mimicked.'

To retrace some steps that will develops as the novel unfolds, the author briefly states, `Billy is only eight years old, but has already had a rough life. He never knew his mama, she died giving birth. His daddy married Rose, when Billy was five years old. Both Rose and his daddy drank and fought continuously. Rose was very abusive to Billy. During a camping trip, planned to bring the family together, Billy sees that things will never change. He decides to run away. Packing his tent in the middle of the night, he hikes through the mountains, facing many challenges before reuniting with his daddy.'

Few writers are able to convey the abuse, the pain, and the scars of unhappy family units as well as Peggy. It is a turn in direction for her, and if this novel is any marker we should anticipate more psychological studies as thrillers in the near future. A well-sculpted story, a topic worth of investigating.