Terry Kay

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1976
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • The Year the Lights Came on

    First published in 1976, The Year the Lights Came On was Terry Kay's debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now ...

  • After Eli

    In the Nahella Valley of Appalachia, a rumor is whispered about a man named Eli Pettit and the small fortune in stolen money he supposedly hid on his farm before disappearing, leaving a wife, daughter and sister-in-law to tend the land and guard the ...

  • Dark Thirty

    In the sleepy town of Tickenaley, Georgia, they call the thirty minutes between day and night Dark Thirty. The memory of daylight lingers, but falling darkness brings with it haze, change and uncertainty. One day at Dark Thirty, Jesse Wade, in high s...

  • To Dance with the White Dog

    This brilliantly realized novel of life, loss, mystery and hope has garnered exceptional critical praise. An old man (whose wife of 57 years has died) and his mythic white dog teach a lasting lesson in love, hope and the importance of believing in yo...

  • Shadow Song

    In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine Hill Inn. A rural Southerner, he had never heard the word meshugge until Avrum Feldman -- a retired New York City furrier -- became his unlikely friend. For Bobo, no...

  • The Runaway

    When two twelve-year-old boys--Tom and Son Jesus--decide to embark on an adventure involving fishing, rafting, and exploring, they find a human bone, which leads to a murder investigation that causes the local townsfolk to question their convictions ...

  • The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene

    Aaron Greene is barely a year out of high school when he disappears on his way to work at a powerful Atlanta bank. The kidnappers demand ten million dollars, with one condition: the money must come from the bank, not Aaron's parents. But the bank ref...

  • Special Kay

  • Taking Lottie Home

    When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway - a girl-woman named Lottie Parker - on the train that takes them from Augusta, Geor...



  • The Valley of Light

    From Terry Kay, one of America's most gifted storytellers, comes a poignant novel of love, acceptance, and the wonders of the world in which we live.
    In the summer of 1948, Noah Locke arrives in the small North Carolina hamlet of Bowerstown, set...

  • The Book of Marie

    In spring 1962, a young black girl is killed at a civil rights demonstration on a university campus in Atlanta. The next day a home in Georgia is burned. Both events are etched into the memory of Cole Bishop, eerily playing out the predictions of a f...

  • Bogmeadow's Wish

    When Cooper Coghlan arrives in Ireland with the cremains of his grandfather, Finn Coghlan, he has one instruction: Let my ashes blow in the wind. You'll know the place when you come to it. I'll be there, telling you. He also has tender
    memories of...

  • The Greats of Cuttercane

    When Asa Holbbrook Staggs stepped into the cold-water spring that would later bear his name, he was drunk. The date was November 18, 1914. He pulled himself from the water, sober, cold, and converted to a new life in the Lord. Thus began the legend o...

  • The Seventh Mirror

    Like his father and grandfather before him, Fergus Greybar the Fourth travels the countryside in a wagon of carnival mirrors, pulled by two magnificent white horses named Look and See. As the Mirror Man, he is welcomed everywhere by children who find...

  • Song of the Vagabond Bird

    When he arrives on Neal's Island to begin ten days of intensive group therapy to treat his obsession for a woman he cannot forget, he brings with him the pseudonym of Bloodworth. Pseudonyms are a requirement to participate in Dr. Carson X. Willingham...

  • The King Who Made Paper Flowers

    When Arthur Benjamin steps from a Greyhound bus in Savannah, Georgia, he is immediately robbed by an affable street magician named Hamby Cahill.

    It is Hamby's first act of thievery and the remorse of it so overwhelms him that he finds lodgin...

  • The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet

    Middy Sweet Young, a wealthy widow, returns to her hometown in Northeast Georgia in search of her youth, lured by a dreamy wish shared with Luke Mercer, her high school boyfriend: One day we’ll be together… THE FOREVER WISH OF MIDDY SWEET...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Terry Kay has published 17 books.

Terry Kay does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came on, was published in August 1976.

No. Terry Kay does not write books in series.
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