Under My Hat

About the Book

Lettie arrives in the little town of Denata with a small child and a past. Supporting herself and her daughter as a beautician she soon learns that many of her clients have secrets also. Their stories are sometimes touching, other times sad and often funny. All of them she keeps under her hat. Her clients become a cast of familiar characters who along with other friends keep her going. From time to time her past appears to be catching up with her and to threaten her way of life as well as her daughter’s. Thanks to her daughter she is forced to reunite with the family which abandoned her when she needed them most. When least expected she meets Clint with whom she shares her secrets, her life and a mystery. This story is about the evolution of Lettie Ediston who becomes very much a part of the town, more in fact than she had imagined.

About the Author

Dorothy E. Lee was a college dropout who later earned a doctorate and became Professor of Sociology and a department chair at Illinois State University. After nine years of happy retirement she returned to her first love: writing. Her first novel, The Revision,was published in 2001.