The mammoth cheese - Sheri Holman

A warm, wonderfully crafted, page-turning novel about life, love and a 1,235-pound cheese

When Manda Frank gives birth to an astonishing eleven babies, the world descends on her home town of Three Chimneys, Virginia. Beneath the intense media spotlight the town begins to give up its long-held secrets—from unrequited love to more dangerous and subversive passions. Meanwhile, cheesemaker Margaret Prickett decides to highlight the plight of the rural community by creating The Mammoth Cheese—a 1,235-pound wheel of Cheshire which she plans to parade all the way to Washington—while failing to notice the plight of her own teenage daughter Polly, who is caught up in the dangerous romance of rebellion, and veering precariously towards tragedy.