Looking After Lily (edition 1994)

by Cindy Bonner

Series: McDade Cycle (2)

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Looking after Lily is a burden Haywood Beatty didn't bargain for. Only twenty years old himself, he's been charged with the welfare of Lily, a sixteen-year-old mother-to-be and wife of his outlaw brother. But Lily keeps coming up with what Haywood needs. A horse. A gun. Money. Common sense. And before long Haywood recognizes that he has fallen in love with his brother's wife. "Good stuff . . . an intelligent, humane story about a guy with too much energy and too little sense. It rates an A."--Entertainment Weekly.… (more)

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Member:	faither
Title:	Looking After Lily
Authors:	Cindy Bonner
Info:	Algonquin Books (1994), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Tags:	western, own, read as a teen, love, family, friendship, death, cowboys, texas

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Looking After Lily by Cindy Bonner

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There's something about the way Bonner tells a story that pulls me in and doesn't let go, every time.
The first time I read this was I was 15 or so and I remember not really getting it. Reading again about ten years later, I can say I get it more. I understand what changes Haywood and how Lily herself changes in the two years following Lily. More than anything this is a coming of age story set against a skillfully depicted 1880s Texas background. (

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faither | Apr 30, 2009 |

Sequel to "Lily"; older brother of Lily's husband takes care of her. (

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Looking after Lily is a burden Haywood Beatty didn't bargain for. Only twenty years old himself, he's been charged with the welfare of Lily, a sixteen-year-old mother-to-be and wife of his outlaw brother. But Lily keeps coming up with what Haywood needs. A horse. A gun. Money. Common sense. And before long Haywood recognizes that he has fallen in love with his brother's wife. "Good stuff . . . an intelligent, humane story about a guy with too much energy and too little sense. It rates an A."--Entertainment Weekly.

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