When the Soul Mends: A Novel (Sisters of the Quilt, #3)
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Returning to the home she fled in disgrace, will Hannah find healing for the wounds of the past?

After receiving a desperate and confusing call from her sister, Hannah Lapp reluctantly returns to the Old Order Amish community of her Pennsylvania childhood.

Having fled in disgrace more than two years earlier, she finally has settled into a satisfying role in the Englischer w...more
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Published September 16th 2008 by WaterBrook Press
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Loraine Alcorn
I was able to read When the Soul Mends by Cindy Woodsmall, through blogging for books. This is the second novel in the set and its a really good book. I loved these 2 novels but this second one really has everything working out nicely. In the first novel their is a lot of tragedy and heartbreak. In When the Soul Mends, we get to see the characters grow up in both faith and love.
I just loved the whole story! I loved all the characters and the way that the story its self was extremely uplifti...more
Louise
Story Description:

Returning to the home she fled in disgrace, will Hannah find healing for the wounds of the past?

After receiving a desperate and confusing call from her sister, Hannah Lapp reluctantly returns to the Old Order Amish community of her Pennsylvania childhood.

Having fled in disgrace more than two years earlier, she finally has settled into a satisfying role in the Englischer world. She also has found love and a new family with the wealthy Martin Palmer...more
Kav
Kav rated it 5 of 5 stars
I normally don't like a continuous series like this but there is no way Woodsmall could have done Hannah's story justice in just one book. I think she did a marvelous job of dividingIher journey between the three books.

When the Soul Mends had me on tenterhooks. I knew how I wanted it to end but I wasn't sure that it was possible. In fact, Woodsmall convinced me that that my hopes would pretty much be dashed until nearly the end of the book. It was agonizing to read and my emotions just...more
Courtney
Hannah Lapp thought she left the past behind her and intended to move on with her Englischer life. Then all things change when her sister Sarah calls her and begs her to come home again. Hannah can tell that Sarah is in desperate need of someone to talk to and she rushes home to deal with it. Hannah has to face her fears of seeing all the family and community that ridiculed her for so long and try to forgive the past and move forward. While she is there her soul does begin to mend and she fin...more
Alex Short
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Jeannie Heffner
One of the best books I've read in quite some time.. on healing ones soul and discovering what God has planted down deep in your soul..learning to except yourself no matter what you've done in your past and what life is really about to you.Not what others think,Learning to depend on God, not just for happiness, but to help you live your life the way he wants you to..But we need to go to Him and ask Him and depend on Him and believe Him...Learn to let go and let God.And above all live our life t...more
Eileen Souza
Again, 3 stars. I really struggled between 3 and 4 stars, but it wasn't quite really good. I wish you could do 3.5 stars - that would perfectly cover my feelings on this book.

This was a good wrap up book (I love books with epilogues) and brought a satisfying conclusion to the series. As I've been reading it, and trying to categorize my likes and dislikes in my head, it basically comes down to this: the series is a coming of age story, and Hannah's coming of age forces her to truly find...more
Ruth
Ruth rated it 3 of 5 stars
This is the third book in a series, and I haven't read the other two; therefore there was a lot of backstory alluded to which I didn't completely understand, but it was explained well enough for this story to make sense. Still, there were a lot of names that took me a while to keep straight, but Woodsmall did provide a list of characters at the beginning of the book to aid with this.

I enjoyed the story and assuming the truthfulness of the details of Amish life, it was interesting ...more
Donna
Hannah Lapp has moved on with her life. After leaving Owl's Perch, she moved in with her aunt, Zabeth, and began to heal. Hannah is almost finished with nursing school, is engaged, and is taking care of Martin's niece and nephew. Her life seems to be going along well until there is a fire in Owl's Perch. Returning to the Amish community is difficult for many reasons, but her sister's mental health deteriorates and she needs to find her professional help. While Hannah and Paul Waddell tried to st...more
Dawn
Dawn rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: read-in-2012
A message from her sister, Sarah, draws Hannah Lapp back to the Amish community that she fled in disgrace three years ago. As she gets pulled into her sister's problems, secrets come to light and answers are given. Hannah also finds herself being pulled towards her first love again. She's got a comfortable life outside of the Plain community with a family that loves her. Will she choose to stay in the Amish world or leave it all behind to continue to live as an Englischer?

This the thir...more
Wendi
Wendi rated it 4 of 5 stars
When The Soul Mends
By Cindy Woodsmall
Published by WaterBrook Press

Book 3 in the Sisters Of The Quilt series, When The Soul Mends begins two years after Hannah Lapp left behind her Old Order Amish life in Owls’ Perch, to begin a new life as an Englischer. Two years of heartbreak, recovery, and eventual fulfillment as a nursing student, girlfriend, and caregiver to two precious children. Life for Hannah was finally growing happy again… and then the call.

An ang...more
Rhonda
Two and half years ago, then seventeen year old Hannah Lapp left in disgrace the Old Order Amish community and her family home in Owl's Perch, Pennsylvania. Her equally shunned Aunt Zabeth Bender took her teenage niece into her home in Winding Creek, Ohio. Hannah vowed never to return although she misses her family, even though her father who's shunning of her means to him she is dead. Hannah has found contentment with her beloved Martin Palmer and the children they raise.

However, w...more
Amber
Amber rated it 5 of 5 stars
This book shares a powerful story of healing and hope after deep suffering. The author’s writing style, as well as her apparent knowledge of the different worlds (Amish, Mennonite, and Englischer) contained within the story, made this an engaging read. Each character had his or her own problems, sorrows, and pain—making each one of them true to life.

Although I did not read the first two books in this series, the author included enough back-story to make the book stand on its own. ...more
Rita
Rita rated it 5 of 5 stars
In this 3rd and final book of the series we follow Hannah as she continues to search for her way. She is continuing her education--becoming a nurse--and she thinks she has found love and a new purpose in life. Martin and his niece and nephew plus her work in the clinic and school consume all her time. But then her sister Sarah calls and she does go back to Pennsylvania to help her. And then she meets up with Paul again and all the hurt and frustration of her old life in the Amish world come ...more
Gail
Gail rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: books-we-own
There are three books in Sisters of the Quilt series: When the Heart Cries, When the Morning Comes and When the Soul Mends. Hannah Lapp has been raised Old Order Amish but at 17 she desires to break with custom. She's in love with Mennonite Paul who has secretly asked her to marry him. Then tragedy strikes Hannah and she is devastated. Thinking she will probably lose her place in her family & community, she flees to another state. Hannah finds an aunt she never knew and learns to fit in with t...more
Esther
Esther rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2011, book-review
My Review of This Book:
There are varying thoughts in regards to book series and whether or not the individual book should be able to stand alone when read apart from the series. Well I am happy to say that When the Soul Mends by Cindy Woodsmall does a great job standing on its own. I unwittingly signed up to review this book not knowing that it was a part of a series. As I opened the book I was afraid that I might not be able to provide an accurate review having not read the previous books ...more
Edna Tollison
I love Beverly Lewis books and this story was just as good. I have the two books and loved to read about the family and to learn how they dealt with the problems in the first two books.
Hannah Lapp came from an old order Amish family where after a tragic incident , left her home and became part of the "english world". The story is about love and betrayal, forgiveness and moving on with life.

I love all the Amish books and love to read new author's work these three books a...more
Courtney
I felt a little lost at the beginning of the book since I have not read the first two books in the series but once I understood some of the background of the characters I began to really enjoy this story and when the last chapter came, I was sad it ended.[return][return]I don t know how true to life the lifestyle of the Amish is in her book but it was an eyeopener and I was surprised to find myself wanting to know to more about the community.[return][return]I am going to be keeping an eye out f...more
penelopewanders
Lent by a colleague, very obviously not the first in the series, so I'm tempted to stop until I can get the first...
So I did greatly regret not having thefirst in the series, but ended up reading it anyway. Ironically, I had to go away after I'd read about half of it, and took another book, Sunshine and Shadow to read on that trip (don't like to leave on a trip with a book I've already read half of) - to my surprise that is also set in an Amish community. I found this interesting and was v...more
Shelley
I got this in Shipshe because I figured, when else would I get a chance to buy an Amish book? Damn it, I was up until 12:30 last night because I couldn't put it down. Now where am I going to buy more from this author? RAGPAGS, let's plan another trip to Shipshe!

I think that Martin's character suffered a bit to raise Paul up, but other than that, I adored the characters and truly rooted for all of them. Paul was a wonderful character and frankly, so was Martin. He wasn't what Hannah n...more
Margaret
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April
April rated it 4 of 5 stars
When the Soul Mends, written by Cindy Woodsmall, is the third and final book in the Sisters of the Quilt series. It's a sort of crossroads story for the main character, Hannah, and while she is dealing with complex feelings while having returned to the Amish world, she must decide whether or not she will remain, or return to the Englischer world. For a bonus "issue", she must also decide whether or not to start something up again with her old Amish beau. While the potential love int...more
Kristy
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Christina
Christina rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2009-reads, amish
When the Soul Mends, the third and final book in Cindy Woodsmall’s Sisters of the Quilt series, picks up right at the end of When the Morning Comes with Hannah speeding off to Owl’s Perch, the Amish community she left two and a half years ago. {Has it really been that long?} Her relationship with her family, especially her father and sister, along with her feelings towards ex-fiance, Paul, are in tatters, but Hannah can’t ignore her sister’s desperate pleas for help.

I was afraid th...more
April
April rated it 4 of 5 stars
After receiving a desperate and confusing call from her sister, Hannah Lapp reluctantly returns to the Old Order Amish community of her Pennsylvania childhood.

Having left Owl's Perch more than two years earlier, she finally has settled into a satisfying role in the Englisher world. Hannah has found love and a new family with the wealthy Martin Palmer and the children she is helping him raise; and her life-long dream of being part of the medical community is being realized. But almost...more
Tara Lynn
I could repeat for the umpteenth time how shocked I was to enjoy this series, let alone read through all of it in a matter of days. (Two of these books alone I got through in a sitting, I just couldn't stop reading.)

Hannah's story is simple, and inspirational without being preachy, the way books that have a religious or spritual theme often are. While I consider myself a very spiritual person, and certainly a religious one, books that have a religious theme often feel very much as th...more
Sarah
I don’t want it to end. In this final book in the Sisters of the Quilt series we are once again transported back to the Old Order Amish community of Owl’s Perch as well as the Ohio home of Hannah Lapp. The tension in this book was palpable, the decisions that Hannah has to make both for her own good as well as others, is fraught with heartache and forgiveness.

I read this book in one day, because I just couldn’t put it down. I had to know what happened between Paul and Hannah and h...more
Nicole
Nicole rated it 2 of 5 stars
I anxiously awaited the third and final novel in Cindy's Woodsmall series Sisters of the Quilt. The first two were exceptionally written and provide a unique and insightful look into the life of an Old Order Amish community in modern day times. This final story was a complete disappointment. The character of Hannah in this storyline completely put me off. She was so different from the previous storylines that I find this transformation unbelievable. She's only been gone from her community f...more
Holly (2 Kids and Tired)
The concluding book to the Sisters of the Quilt series, this picks up literally at the end of the second one, When the Morning Comes. After receiving a troubling phone call from her sister, Hannah returns to Owl's Perch to find her dear friend Matthew injured in a fire and his brother dead. She finds that belief in the rumors and lies which drove her away still lingers in the hearts of some of her people. She can see her sister suffering from mental illness and her father in denial of that il...more
Nora
Nora rated it 5 of 5 stars
When the Soul Mends
By Cindy Woodsmall
Published by Waterbrook Press
ISBN#978-1-4000-7294-1
336 Pages

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After receiving a desperate and confusing call from her sister, Hannah Lapp reluctantly returns to the Old Order Amish community of her Pennsylvania childhood.

Having fled in disgrace two years earlier, she finally has found a satisfying role in the Englischer world, as well as love with Martin Palmer, a man with whom she can safely en...more
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Cindy Woodsmall is a veteran homeschool mom. As her children progressed in age, her desire to write grew stronger. After working through reservations whether this desire was something she should pursue, she began her writing journey. Her husband was her staunchest supporter as she aimed for what seemed impossible.

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