I don’t want to recommend one so much as try and find one. I am fairly certain it was by an author named Weldon Hill (a psudonym) who wrote the book on which the movie “Onionhead” was based. The book I am trying to remember the title of had the name of a river in the South in the tirle and I think it may have been Okeefenokee but that may be completely wrong. Can anyone help? Either Amazon doesn’t have it or I have the author wrong.
FaeriBeth, An Old-Fashioned Girl! I have my grandmother’s copy from the Nineteenth Century around here somewhere. I also loved it when I read it in the 1950’s. All I remember are the names Fannie, Tom and the words watered silk. Just your mention of it brought that back.
Dead Ned - An Autobiography Of A Corpse, by John Masefield. I read it because I was amused by the title, and I thought it was an entertaining yarn. There is a sequel, but the title spoils Dead Ned,
Live and Kicking Ned.
This title is equally amusing, but I couldn’t bring myself to finish the book.