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Sweet Everlasting
A young city doctor moves to the country, where a mute and beautiful local woman will change his life forever
Newly installed at his modest post in Wayne’s Crossing, Pennsylvania, Tyler Wilkes is a doctor, a hero of the Spanish-American War, and the heir to a great fortune. His wealthy family in Philadelphia doesn’t approve of his new station, but Tyler is sure of his calli...more
Newly installed at his modest post in Wayne’s Crossing, Pennsylvania, Tyler Wilkes is a doctor, a hero of the Spanish-American War, and the heir to a great fortune. His wealthy family in Philadelphia doesn’t approve of his new station, but Tyler is sure of his calli...more
ebook, 382 pages
Published
December 13th 2011
by Open Road Media
(first published 1993)
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This is a book that I should have liked better than I actually did.
Upon reflection I think that much of this had to do with the fact that the heroine was simply too sweet and self sacrificing for her own good.
Warning spoilers:
Dr Tyler Wilkes moves to small town Pennsylvania where he comes across the pretty but mute Carrie Wiggins, who lives up the mountain with her drunken step father.
There is initial relationship building with Carrie presenting as shy and retiring. She is socially isolated du...more
Upon reflection I think that much of this had to do with the fact that the heroine was simply too sweet and self sacrificing for her own good.
Warning spoilers:
Dr Tyler Wilkes moves to small town Pennsylvania where he comes across the pretty but mute Carrie Wiggins, who lives up the mountain with her drunken step father.
There is initial relationship building with Carrie presenting as shy and retiring. She is socially isolated du...more
This is the third book by Patricia Gaffney that I've read and loved.
Carrie (h) at 18 she is a loner,recluse and a mute. She lives high up on a mountain with her abusive stepfather. Most people in town either tease her or don't under stand her,she has very few friends and she keeps to herself . When a new doctor comes to town she's intrigued by him , he's nice to her and it didn't seem to matter to him that she can't talk.
Tyler (H) has decided to take up residence as the country doctor,not exact...more
Carrie (h) at 18 she is a loner,recluse and a mute. She lives high up on a mountain with her abusive stepfather. Most people in town either tease her or don't under stand her,she has very few friends and she keeps to herself . When a new doctor comes to town she's intrigued by him , he's nice to her and it didn't seem to matter to him that she can't talk.
Tyler (H) has decided to take up residence as the country doctor,not exact...more
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a sweet lullaby of a love story.
this book reminded me a lot in tone of the movie winter's bone, though the plots are nothing alike. the book's about a mute girl who lives in the appalachian mountains with her horrible step-father, and she befriends the town doctor and epidemiologist, a former rough rider who's suffering the after-effects of yellow fever.
the privation and stark beauty of the mountains are what made me think of winter's bone, so i couldn't help but see the protagonist, carrie, as...more
this book reminded me a lot in tone of the movie winter's bone, though the plots are nothing alike. the book's about a mute girl who lives in the appalachian mountains with her horrible step-father, and she befriends the town doctor and epidemiologist, a former rough rider who's suffering the after-effects of yellow fever.
the privation and stark beauty of the mountains are what made me think of winter's bone, so i couldn't help but see the protagonist, carrie, as...more
Oct 14, 2012
Christy
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What a treat to read a historical set somewhere other than Regency England or the American Old West. This turn-of-the-20th-century novel features a Rough Rider hero who is now a country doctor in rural Pennsylvania who dreams of becoming an epidemiologist. He is motivated by his experience in the Spanish-American war, where 13x more of his fellow soldiers were killed by yellow fever than by enemy fire. I learned about Walter Reed's claim to fame and was treated to a difficult but satisfying roma...more
The book starts out great with two perfectly nice people gently falling in love with each other. Then before I know it spirals into this extremely angsy, soap opera-ish drama. The exclamation at the end by the hero himself sums it best, what a circus.
A touching love story, beautifully written. Patricia Gaffney is an exceptionally gifted writer, and these characters live, no question. Read it if you like romance novels with depth, and nuance. Possibly not to everyone's taste, I love this book.
Slow in parts but mainly to set the scene and i am as always impatient to get to the part where the main characters learn they can't live without each other.
I enjoyed the story, until the frustrating best-ending. heroine a little different, but too selfsacrificing.
A really great romance novel.
07/1993
I dont know if I have read this before or if the shy/mute country girl is so overused it just seemed familiar.
DNFing this. It's not BAD, I just don't care about these people or what happens to them.
May 10, 2013
June
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Patricia Gaffney was born in Tampa, Florida, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and also studied literature at Royal Holloway College of the University of London, at George Washington University, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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