Where Or When

by Ralph Bland

Life is a constant struggle for Emily Hughes. Whether she's all in a dither over the recent weird behavior of her eighty-nine-year-old organ-playing mother or fretting over the fact that her grown son, Thomas, is dallying with a woman at the health department or just in a lather that her daughter, Ruthanna, is openly cavorting with the son of her worst enemy, there's always a crisis in view. Add all that to the fact that the new minister of music down at the Maxwell Street Baptist Church looks an awful lot like Paul Newman, and suddenly Emily is confronted with a hymn book full of rampaging hormones herself. And with Nashville, Tennessee, fast becoming a nesting ground for sin and wickedness, there's simply no time for a good Christian woman to get any rest.

220 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2005

About the author

Ralph Bland is the author of eleven novels. He lives with his wife, a pack of spoiled dogs, and an eccentric MG on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee.

Once In Love With Amy
Where Or When
Past Perfect
Ace
Long Long Time
Bright Red Devil
Super Sport
Stars Rain Sun Moon
Anticipation
Exeunt
Lockhart

Not Dead Again: Stories

Reviews

[Monte Lamb · Rating 4 out of 5]

The times and tribulations of a wide range of characters in Nashville, Tennessee. The strength of the book is in the characterizations. The pattern is similar to the author's other books which relate the thinking as well as words of all the characters. Most everyone can identify these characters as ones they have lived with or around their entire lives. This time, you get to get into their minds as well as to see their quirky actions.