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Summary
To protect her daughter from danger, Jewel Libby flees to Gresham and friends direct them to the vicarage. But they arrive to find the vicar Andrew Phelps and his wife immersed in their own troubles. Soon Jewel finds the tables have turned and she is the one offering support and a source of strength.
Author Notes
Lawana Blackwell has eleven published novels to her credit. She and her husband have three married sons and live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Reviews (2)
Booklist Review
Single mother Jewel Libby has a dead-end job, day-care problems, and a pedophile for a landlord. As difficult as it would be in today's world, Jewel's prospects seem hopeless in 1884 in Birmingham, England, where she sews corsets in a Dickensian factory. Living in the vicarage of the picturesque dairy village of Gresham Green, writer Adela Phelps loves her big, noisy family but needs quiet to work. As she moves to a forest cottage, Jewel, concerned for the safely of her daughter, flees the city and seeks sanctuary in Gresham Green. However, evil can exist in even the most idyllic little town. Blackwell skillfully reveals the good, bad, beautiful, and ugly aspects of life in nineteenth-century England, creating a well-written, faith-based book that doesn't get bogged down in didacticism or dogma, making it appealing to a broad audience. A nice addition to Blackwell's Gresham Chronicles (The Widow of Larkspur Inn, 1998; The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998; The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999).--Mosley, Shelley Copyright 2008 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Picking up where the "Gresham Chronicles" series (The Widow of Larkspur Inn; The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter; The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark) left off, this title revolves around the children of Vicar Andrew Phelps and Julia Hollis in the English village of Gresham. Aleda is a reclusive writer, while Philip is a successful London surgeon who returns home to help his ailing father. Romance and mystery complicate their lives. Blackwell lives in Louisiana. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.