Becoming Olive W.: The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga Book 1

She’s beautiful and brilliant. But the world is not ready for her to shine…

Western Pennsylvania, 1905. Olive Westchester dreams of being valued. Misunderstood, resented, and ignored by her large family after her mother's death, her only ally is an older brother who loves her unconditionally. And the hard-headed girl’s visions of making her mark are threatened by a close-minded society resentful of her superior intellect.

Stunned after a jealous teacher expels her from the eighth grade, Olive's anger swells when her dismissive father does nothing to get her readmitted… instead pushing her to learn to be a wealthy man’s wife. But as tragedy strikes, she turns to a local laborer enamored with her beauty and makes a decision that may change her destiny forever.

Can the bold young woman shatter the chains holding her back from realizing her ambitions?

Becoming Olive W. is the emotionally intense first book in The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga women’s fiction series. If you like determined characters, complex relationships, and realistic historical settings, then you’ll adore S. Lee Fisher’s dark coming-of-age tale.

Buy Becoming Olive W. to defy male dominance today!

Mulit-award winner.

Multi-Award Winner
Winner- Women's Interest category by NABE  Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards 2021
Finalist- NIEA Indie Excellence Book Award Women's Fiction category 2021
Bronze Medal- CIPA EVVY Awards 2021
Bronze Medal- Reader's Favorite Book Award 2021
Finalist- American Fiction Award 2021
Gold Award- Literary Titan Book Award 2021
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By Reader's Favorite 
"★★★★★ , Bronze Medal winner Fiction- Literary" - Reader's Favorite
"S. Lee Fisher has created a beautifully written and well-developed story. Becoming Olive W.: The Women of Campbell County highlights the rural life of Olive Westchester and her dysfunctional large farming family.----- The reader will be transported and absorbed in the story as Olive fights for her place. The author provides a clear picture of what rural Pennsylvania life was like in the early 1900s. Fisher's detail in describing clothing, furnishings, rural life, West Point, and New York City will leave readers with a clear picture of how Olive suffers at the hands of her family. I found it difficult to put the book down. I needed to keep reading to discover what happens to Olive and her family. A well-written story and I look forward to more from this author. A great book." by Teresa Syms for Reader's Favorite Book review
 
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"★★★★★" - Literary Titan July 4, 2021
"Becoming Olive W is the first book  by S Lee Fisher called The Women of Campbell County: It covers a period of about 13 years, following Olive from the ages of 3 to 16, with the majority of the plot taking place during the first part of World War 1. Fisher handles the leaps through time with a deft hand, and the reader is rarely, if ever, left feeling as if there is something missing.
Whether it was intentional or not, the style is reminiscent of the sweeping plots of Barbara Taylor Bradford. With Olive and her family, Fisher has created a gripping tale and irresistible individuals you emotionally connect with. There are all the elements of a multi-generational family epic with memorable characters, wealth and poverty, treachery, difficult circumstances, great love rubbing up against abiding hatred and fatal flaws galore.-----Becoming Olive W is an emotionally charged family saga set in a realistic historical setting with riveting drama that will keep readers consistently entertained. Olive is a character that I will remember for a long time."- Literary Titan July 4
 
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BY THE PRAIRIES BOOK REVIEW on MAY 3,
"★★★★★" "Stirring and transporting..." -The Prairies Book Review     "Set in the early 1900s in rural Pennsylvania, Fisher's marvelous debut installment in her historical fiction series takes readers on a young woman's coming-of-age journey as she sets on to attain a college education.---- --The pacing is swift, and the characterization fully realized. The story moves at a swift pace as Fisher provides piercing perspectives on gender bias, family, relationships, resilience, and trauma. Rich in its discussion of portrayal of sexism and gender inequalities of the era, the novel makes for a gripping read."- The Prairies Book Review
 
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BY BOOK VIEW REVIEW on May 4, 2021
"★★★★★"- Book View Review
"Fisher weaves family dynamics and individualism into a captivating historical tale set in the early 1900s in her series kicker in The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga series.------ The dialogue is both entertaining and realistic, the characterization attentive, and the razor-sharp descriptions evoke an authentic rural atmosphere. She beautifully blends bigotry, self-realization, love, jealousy, loss, resentment and anger, and grief into a resonant story of familial love that both soothes and devastates. The lovers of historical fiction won't want to miss this engrossing coming-of-age tale." -by Book View Review

Multi-award Winning Author.
Ms. Fisher is proud to announce that Becoming Olive W. was chosen: 
Winner- Women's Interest category by NABE  Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards 2021
Finalist- NIEA Indie Excellence Book Award Women's Fiction category 2021
Bronze Medal- CIPA EVVY Awards 2021
Bronze Medal- Reader's Favorite Book Award 2021
Finalist- American Fiction Award 2021
Gold Award- Literary Titan Book Award 2021

 Pharmacy to Fiction.Award winning writing as a second career. S. Lee Fisher, aka Dr. "P.", clinical pharmacist was born and raised in 'small town' Pennsylvania. After moving to Pittsburgh, she enjoyed a successful corporate career managing retrospective clinical programs for the PBM side of a Fortune 20 company.
Fisher began writing fiction as a means of channeling the pain and grief of her father's passing. In the process, she discovered that she enjoys the creativity of telling stories.
Now a full-time novelist, Fisher lives on the gulf coast of Florida with her husband of 37 years, Ralph. When she's not writing, she may be found painting watercolors, ballroom dancing, and swimming.