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Velva Jean Learns to Drive (Velva Jean #1)

by Jennifer Niven (Goodreads Author)

3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 · rating details · 1,868 ratings · 375 reviews

Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South. Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world." Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright, a...more

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Published July 28th 2009 by Plume Books (first published May 4th 2009)

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Jul 31, 2012 Cathy Brownfield rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love this book. I found it at a dollar store. The title reached out and grabbed me.

Velva Jean is 10 when the story opens in 1933 near Alluvial, North Carolina. She thinks being saved in Three Gum River will make life perfect. But that is when Daddy goes away leaving nothing but a note for Mama to find and there are a lot of things that go wrong, starting with Mama taking to her sickbed. Velva Jean blames her daddy for all of it. Why didn't he stay and take care of them all? Why was he always...more

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Jul 29, 2012 Tyra rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: coming-of-age

I really enjoyed reading Velva Jean Learns to Drive. It was given to me by a family member (Isn't it great when someone shares a book with you?). As you can see from the blurb above, it takes place in the Appalachian Mountains in the years 1933 to 1941.

In the novel, the main character, Velva Jean Hart, experiences the good and ugly of life from spiritual rebirth, love, and marriage to death, doubt, and loss. Velva Jean was well crafted. From the author's descriptions, I felt as if she was a real...more

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Sep 03, 2011 Vicki rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you are meandering through the used book store years from now and spot the name "Jennifer Niven," on the cover of anything, pick it up and take it home, hole up and enjoy a good read! This young author was featured at ALA on a Southern Authors panel. She is just as pretty as a Southern belle of yore, and...not that I ever judge on appearances...Not Me!...but I digress...I didn't think this dewy-eyed young thing could possibly be ready for the big time. My opinion changed quickly as she starte...more If you are meandering through the used book store years from now and spot the name "Jennifer Niven," on the cover of anything, pick it up and take it home, hole up and enjoy a good read! This young author was featured at ALA on a Southern Authors panel. She is just as pretty as a Southern belle of yore, and...not that I ever judge on appearances...Not Me!...but I digress...I didn't think this dewy-eyed young thing could possibly be ready for the big time. My opinion changed quickly as she started speaking. For one thing, she has been writing since childhood, and this is not even her first book to draw the attention of the masses, counting the folks who give out awards for good writing!

This is an outstanding novel describing the life of a young girl growing up in Appalachia during the Depression years. The story begins when Velva Jean is 10 and gets saved at a camp meeting near her family's mountain home. It is fiction, but Ms. Niven has drawn heavily from her heritage and family history in the Appalachian mountains that run through Tennessee and North Carolina. She does an outstanding job of recreating the mountain way of independent thinking and the dialect used by all the characters that we meet in this telling of Velva Jean's story.

The times are changing in ways the mountain community cannot control, just as Velva Jean is similarly helpless to control her own circumstances. The federal government has decided to build a highway through these remote mountains so that anyone with a car can share the magnificent beauty of the environment that has been hidden from all but the Cherokee nation and the hardy settlers who have mostly replaced them by the late 1700's. The road building provides jobs, but mostly to "outlanders," who are not trusted by many of the mountain people. Some of the long time families are uprooted as the road cuts through their property. But Velva Jean's dad and her brother Beachard find work with the road builders and become invaluable resources to those who chart the pathway through the mountains.

Shortly after Velva Jean's baptism in the river, her beloved Mama takes to her bed and in spite of all the remedies and locally honored healing techniques that are applied, she passes away. Her father, who has always been a wanderer, is gone during this time and Velva Jean blames her Mama's death on her Dad's "abandonment" of the family. Her older sister and her husband and small children must move from their apartment in the town at the foot of the mountain back to the family place to watch over Velva Jean and her older brothers Beachard and Johnny Clay. The younger kids certainly do not see their older sister, still a teenager, as a mother figure, and Sweet Fern is no more thrilled with having responsibility for them than they are in being obedient to her.

Velva Jean's mama had always told her that her voice was a special gift from God and that she should "live out there" in the world beyond the mountains. Velva Jean's dream is to sing in Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry, and she seems to be able to write a song about whatever circumstances in which she finds herself. But it looks like that future is growing more and more remote as she gets older, drawing the attention of several of the mountain boys, including Harley Bright, a charismatic young man with a past to live down, even as he makes a name for himself as The Hurricane Preacher. Velva Jean is just as attracted to Harley as he is to her and they marry when she turns 16.

(Lest you think I've told the whole book to you in summary, this gets you maybe to the middle, omitting many delicious details...)

Harley and Velva Jean's story grows more and more complex, as life does after marriage and the unexpected intrusion of life events, but it remains just as compelling a saga until the last page of the novel, and since by then you will have come to care so much about Velva Jean that you will be pleased to know that another book, Velva Jean Learns To Fly, is waiting on the shelf at your local library! If it's not, tell the librarian to order it pronto. (less)

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Aug 30, 2011 Aviva rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love southern fiction. If it's done well, by people who know what they're talking about. This book is set during the depression and the sepia toned plot reminds me in some was of O Brother, Where art Thou? and also, of my family. I think it's interesting that for certain groups of people, even in a society where technology is prevalent, they're still essentially the same people they were during Prohibition. I'm not sure if that's comforting or scary for me. But yeah, this book was sweet. It's...more

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Aug 26, 2011 Toni nee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Velva Jean Learns to Drive by Jennifer Niven paints a rich portrait of life in rural Appalachia during the 30’s and 40’s and proves that smarts have absolutely nothing to do with education.

Velva Jean is young and poor and determined to make something of her self. She’s brave, she’s fearless, and she doesn’t take no for an answer. This is a southern novel in its most optimistic form and a fun, yet poignant read. I especially enjoyed the truths woven in with the fiction regarding the role of evang...more

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In the novel Velva Jean Learns to Drive by Jennifer Niven, Velva Jean- the main character- is on an exploration of her identity and the world surrounding her. Velva Jean continuously prays to be saved from Hell; she has hopes of changing her destiny drastically. Velva Jean Hart’s sole dream in life is to sing at the Grand Olde Opry in Nashville and in pursuance of this dream she sings her way thr...more

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Oct 13, 2010 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved this novel about a very young woman in Appalachia during the time that a highway is being built through the Appalachian mountains. This change is being implemented and accepted (or not) in many ways. Velva Jean falls in love and marries a charismatic preacher boy, Harley Bright, who suffers injuries in a train wreck and whose personality begins to change. He becomes very possessive and suppresses her longings to be and do more. Lucky for Velva, she has a cast of people in her life who en...more

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May 30, 2010 Krista Ashe rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: my-110-of-2010-books

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I came across this book at Dollar General. When I read the synopsis on the back, I knew I had to get it...yeah, the $3 price tag helped, but it was more about the book. It had so many elments I adore: set in the Depression era South, a focus on mountain culture, a strong female protag, and a religious background.

When the book opens up, Velva Jean is only a ten year old girl, which is an interesting premise to me since the book is marketed as an adult book Velva Jean has a life altering moment wh...more I came across this book at Dollar General. When I read the synopsis on the back, I knew I had to get it...yeah, the $3 price tag helped, but it was more about the book. It had so many elments I adore: set in the Depression era South, a focus on mountain culture, a strong female protag, and a religious background.

When the book opens up, Velva Jean is only a ten year old girl, which is an interesting premise to me since the book is marketed as an adult book Velva Jean has a life altering moment when she is saved at a tent revival. As an old timey Southern Baptist, I loved this aspect of the story--her faith and this moment is referred to often throughout the book.

Shortly after being saved, Velva Jean's wanderlust lovin' father leaves the family. It isn't too long before her mother takes to her bed and dies. This shatters little Velva Jean, and for awhile, she questions her faith. Her older sister along with her husband moves back to the family home to care for Velva Jean and her brother. Their father comes home awhile later to find his wife has died. Velva Jean harbors great animosity towards her father, and he doesn't stay too long before leaving again.

Velva Jean's mother has a dying wish for her to see the world, and it is VJ's greatest dream to sing on the stage of the Grand Old Opry. It is through her mother's illness however that her fate is altered when she means the dirty, coal mine dishelved son of a moonshiner. Harley is the first boy to call her pretty. It is many years later that she runs into him again. This time he is an up and coming preacher. It isn't long after they start dating that he asks for her hand. As much as she loves, Harley, he does stifle her dreams. And after several years of marriage, she is disillustioned with Harley, who changes after trying to become the biggest and best preacher. Eventually, she starts teaching herself how to drive, even though Harley doesn't want her to. Over several months, she finally reaches her goal and ends up leaving Harley to try to make it as a singer in Nashville.

I loved the fact that Velva Jean learns how to drive and she learns how to grow a pair and stand up to Harley. I was at first rooting for her and Harley, but my love for him wanted as he undergoes a very unattractive personality change, especially for a minister. I hope that he comes to his senses and realizes what he has lost and actually supports Velva Jean in her dreams.

This core of this book reminds me so much of my adult book The Road to Damascus. (less)

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Aug 12, 2009 Debbie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a little hard to get into at first and yet strangely I could not put it down. We first meet Velva Jean when she is 10 years old and watch as she grows older, marries and has to make a decision about pursuing her dream of singing in the Grand Ole Opry. I had to really get myself into the right frame of mind for this book. It takes place in the early 1930s and continues into the early 40s. So there were a lot of things that I was shaking my head over. I couldn’t believe that it was u...more

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Dec 02, 2009 Ruth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

WOW, this book hooked me from the first word. I just finished it and have been in tears as it's so moving and powerful. I LOVED it! The author has an amazing way to have the main character, Velva Jean, talk to you, the reader and make you feel totally at home in her world of innermost thoughts that most others don't know. We see her grow, develop and transform from the age of ten to twenty. We see her endure tragedies, experience triumphs, explore and ask questions in the 1930's-1940's pre-war e...more

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Jul 20, 2011 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical

I picked this one up because I received an ARC of the sequel at ALA a few weeks ago. So I read the first book in preparation for reading the ARC. I would have thought that this was right up my alley. Velva Jean lives in Appalachia in the 1930s and dreams of becoming a singer at the Grand Ole Opry. But when she falls in love with a handsome preacher, will she lose her own dreams in her attempts to support his? I love historical fiction and Appalachia has always fascinated me. But for some reason,...more

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Jun 19, 2013 Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Oct 04, 2009 bookczuk rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Shelves: bookcrossing, places-i-have-been, rabun-county-and-thereabouts, read-on-recommendation

A quiet, well written, gentle tale set in the North Carolina mountains near our cabin in Rabun County Georgia. The time is the 1930's, knee deep in the Depression and in the building of the Blue Ridge Scenic Parkway. Characters were well drawn, intimate and complete. No stereotypes or straw-men.

Velva Jean first appears at about age 9 or 10, just as she is being saved by Jesus and just before her beloved mother dies. She loves her mama, her brother and her singing, and dreams of heading to Nashv...more

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Aug 24, 2011 Jessica Leigh rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I met the author Jennifer Niven through my work when I read her book "The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town" about her years at the same high school I attended. I enjoyed that book, and her company so much I went out and read her first work, "The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk". I then snagged a copy of "Velva Jean Learns to Drive". I loved this story, I felt wrapped in the beautiful surroundings of Velva Jeans mountains. I grew to love the characters that all...more

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Sep 21, 2010 Ashley rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mar 21, 2013 Dani rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

On the basis of the writing alone, this is a 3-star book, but the story just didn't grab me. If you read the first three or so chapters then read the last one, you will have the story in a nutshell. (I know because I did this, then went back and read the rest of the book, which filled in the details but offered nothing especially novel).

Velva Jean accepts Jesus at 10 (just cause she does not want to go to Hell; is there another reason to be "saved"?), gets married to a handsome local boy at 16,...more

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Jan 30, 2010 Pat rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: southern-authors, the-amazing-read

I am speechless. I have to put this book right up there with "The Help" and a few others I've found amazing and which greatly moved me. I would call it "historical, Southern fiction" by a very talented woman. Its about the people living in the Mountains up around where South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky all come together before the Blue Ridge Parkway was built and how the coming of that road affected and changed their lives. Many were excited, many were afraid. Its about judging...more

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Nov 13, 2010 Melee rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It took me a while to get into this book. It dragged until about half-way through and then it got more interesting.

I was amazed at what a jerk Velva Jean's husband was! He made me so mad at times. After he forbade her to drive and sing I had to put the book down for a while. I contemplated what I would do with a husband like that and well, the conclusion I arrived at was not pretty. :P

I could really identify with Velva Jean's aspirations since I love to sing and write songs. (Though, I don't wan...more

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Aug 30, 2009 Cheri rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: debut-author, debut-novel

At the tender age of ten, Velva Jean is saved in the cool Appalachian waters, only to have her life change drastically after, one cruel event at a time. But Velva Jean has a dream, a big dream.

Set in the North Carolina section of the Appalachian Mountains not far from Asheville during the Depression. Beginning in 1933, not long before the Blue Ridge Parkway construction begins which impacts on everyone on Fair Mountain, home to Velva Jean.

I loved the references to the location, the small detai...more

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Mar 22, 2010 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: recent-reads

this is the story of velva jean - the youngest in a family with three sons and two daughters. velva jean's father is a not one to stick around for long. he leaves periodically to find work and to explore his surroundings. her mother stays home and takes care of the family. but when velva jean is ten, her mother becomes ill and dies. she blames this on her father and when he returns to find his wife dead, he leaves the young children, velva jean and her brother johnny clay, in the hands of their...more

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Mar 22, 2013 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club-reads

There are several reasons I really enjoyed this book.
#1: Velva Jean is the same age/generation as my mother and I enjoyed the insight into what was happening in her world growing up. My mother shared a story about a dog getting rabies when she was young and that made Velva's experience with the mad dog sound true to my reader's ear.
#2: I grew up in Virginia and one of my favorite childhood memories is driving "The Scenic" with my dad, mom and little brother. The trip seemed to be a spur-of-the-...more

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Aug 16, 2010 MamaDoodle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Velva Jean's life parallels the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the 1930s and 40s. Her Mama dies at the beginning of the book as word reaches Velva Jean's isolated mountain community that the "Scenic" would be built across the Appalacians. These unrelated events guide the rest of the novel.

Getting off to a slow start, Niven eventually reeled me in and I was unable to put this book down, finishing at 3 a.m.! Toward the end, Niven gave in to some cheap Nazi-allusion tricks but she manages to...more

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Mar 31, 2010 Sherrey rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: top-southern-fiction

OK, I admit I didn't finish my chores today -- I finished Velma Jean Learns to Drive instead! I LOVED this book from beginning to end. Another great first novel. Perhaps my love for it is that my roots are in Tennessee, close enough to be able to relate to the Appalachians, the Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and most of all "outlanders," a disgusting piece of nomenclature that one would hope had disappeared by now in that part of the country but hasn't. Perhaps I also relate to Velva J...more

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Jan 08, 2011 Anna Packard rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

We read this book as a selection for book club and I didn't anticipate liking it as much as I did. I found myself rooting for the main character and thoroughly enjoying her spunk and spice for life, while at times also wanting to shake her and punch her husband. The book is interesting because I didn't think there was any true antagonist, and I found myself not knowing what to do with the anger I felt at the injustice the main character experienced. This book raised my feminist hackles, as you c...more

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Sep 06, 2010 Doug Lambeth rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm a little leery of the backwoods hick genre--maybe I've had to listen to too many Southern political hacks of late--but Velva Jean was a wonderful way to force me to man up and ignore my ignorant preconceptions. Filled with real emotion--and wonderful sense of time and place--Velva Jean completely captured me. These characters felt very real and not "fiction-y" at all, and Velva Jean's yearning for freedom from what was expected of her had me cheering for her success. I'd love to see the shor...more

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Jun 10, 2012 Sandy Cox rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I can't even begin to describe this sweet little book this is. A friend recommended it to me and it was just a joy to read.

Growing up during the Depression in the Blue Mountains was not easy on Velva Jean. Nor was losing her family, being poor and marrying young, but somehow this woman always maintains her spirit. Velva never says dies, never throws in the towel, she just keeps going and that's what made it so wonderful.

I wish I could tell you more, but it's truly Velva Jean who makes this boo...more

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Oct 27, 2009 Renea rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Feb 04, 2012 Mrsinserra rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks

I really enjoyed this book a lot. I did not read it- I had the audio version and it was amazing. The reader had an Appalachian accent- at least as best as i could tell- and that really made the book enjoyable. Now this is part feel good story and part discovering who you are story. The story is not all happy- it definitely has many sad or upsetting parts- but ultimately it shows how a girl born before WWII could make mistakes- but then learn form them and venture out on her own- leaving everythi...more

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Feb 27, 2010 Carol rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Reviews I have read of this book gives it a higher rating than I can. Frequently I struggle with the set up of a story but really get into it as it progresses. This one kept me reading but it never got to be a front burner. The story is set in the 1930-40's with a diverse group of people living in the mountains with Velva Jean a frustrated talented singer. Women in that era were not afforded the opportunity to develop their talents so if they did so it was a challenge to every one around them an...more

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Mar 06, 2011 Paula Margulies rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A beautiful story, set in the 1930/40's, about a young Appalachian girl, Velva Jean Hart, who longs to someday sing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Velva Jean marries a local moonshiner's son who becomes a preacher and finds herself lost in the role of dutiful wife. The story centers around her relationships with neighbors and family members and the construction of the first roadways through the local area by Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. A sympathetic look at the North Carolina m...more

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About Jennifer Niven

Jennifer Niven lives in Los Angeles (where her film Velva Jean Learns to Drive won an Emmy Award and she once played the part of Shania Twain in a music video). Even though she's always wanted to be a Charlie's Angel, her true passion is writing, and her first book, The Ice Master, was released in November 2000 and named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. A Ba...more Jennifer Niven lives in Los Angeles (where her film Velva Jean Learns to Drive won an Emmy Award and she once played the part of Shania Twain in a music video). Even though she's always wanted to be a Charlie's Angel, her true passion is writing, and her first book, The Ice Master, was released in November 2000 and named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writer, Jennifer has ten different publishers in ten separate countries, and the book has been translated into eight languages, including German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Danish, and Icelandic.

Jennifer and The Ice Master have appeared in Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, Talk, Glamour, The New Yorker, Outside, The New York Times Book Review, The London Daily Mail, The London Times, and Writer's Digest, among others. Dateline NBC, the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel have featured The Ice Master and Jennifer in hour-long documentaries, she and the book have appeared frequently on the BBC, and the book has been the subject of numerous German, Canadian, and British television documentaries. The Ice Master has been nominated for awards by the American Library Association and Book Sense, and received Italy's esteemed Gambrinus Giuseppe Mazzotti Prize for 2002.

Jennifer's second book, Ada Blackjack — an inspiring true story of the woman the press called "the female Robinson Crusoe" — was released in November 2003, was a Book Sense Top Ten Pick, has been optioned for the movies, was recently translated into Chinese, French, and Estonian.

Jennifer’s third book and first novel, Velva Jean Learns to Drive (based on the Emmy Award-winning film of the same name), was released July 2009 by Penguin/Plume. Her fourth book, a memoir —The Aqua-Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town — was published in February 2010 by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, and was optioned by Warner Brothers as a television series. Jennifer's fifth book, Velva Jean Learns to Fly, was released by Penguin/Plume in August 2011. Her sixth book, Becoming Clementine, will be published September 25, 2012.

With her mother, author Penelope Niven, Jennifer has conducted numerous seminars in writing and addressed audiences around the world.

When she isn't writing, Jennifer studies belly dancing, yoga, and electric guitar; explores her inner bombshell; hikes the great outdoors; immerses herself in the movies and culture of Hollywood's golden age; rabidly follows her favorite TV shows; comes to the rescue of homeless animals; reads three to four books a week when her cats aren't lying on them; and sees as much of the world as she can.(less)

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