Hymns of Blue Hollow
Miss the tension of The Calamity Club?
Leave 1930s Mississippi for the moonshine hills of Tennessee, 1941.
What to read next
If you loved The Calamity Club, meet Esther Primm
Esther grew up in the hills of East Tennessee learning three rules: keep your head down, want nothing, trust no one. Then she lands at an estate she was always warned to stay away from, where an older Black woman named Clarissa and a German widower named Ian treat her in ways she has no rules for.
The past isn’t done with her. A preacher who thinks she still belongs to him hides behind his Sunday sermons, and the sheriff sees more than he lets on.
Readers have turned more than 16 million pages of Kemma MarShall’s Hymns of Blue Hollow series on Kindle Unlimited. Like The Calamity Club, it’s about women holding their ground in a small Southern town that would rather they stayed quiet.
Side by Side
How the two books compare
| The Calamity Club | Hymns of Blue Hollow | |
|---|---|---|
| Setting | Mississippi, 1933 | East Tennessee hills, 1941 |
| At its heart | Women standing up to a town’s hypocrisy | A young woman learning to trust after a life of hiding |
| The danger | Surviving hard times with the town watching | A preacher’s obsession and secrets the hollow keeps |
| Feels like | Slow, rich, rooted in place | Slow-burn, lyrical, and hard to put down |
Blue Hollow is waiting
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