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The Unfolding
Annie Hamilton doesn't expect her life to change dramatically when she opens her modest home to a rootless and pregnant neighbor. But when the young woman abandons her newborn son, Annie summons her courage and decides to raise the baby as her own. All is well--until the day the birth mother returns to claim her child. Distraught, Annie searches for answers--and finds them in the most unlikely places. Can this path of darkness be the way that God unfolds His plan for her? This deeply moving story will open readers' eyes to the power of redeeming love--and the power of faith.
304 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2003
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July 10, 2018
Fairy Tale for the adults. Definitely predictable but still powerful enough to cause me to shed a few tears at the end. Glad I read and I would recommend this.
January 31, 2019
You could sense the heartbreak coming from the moment she began raising the child who wasn't hers without going through the legal channels. I esp liked how the author handled the passage of time. It was never explicit, but it was always well explained.
June 12, 2019
It was an eye opener and heart felt book !!
July 28, 2009
Book #1 in "the MacKenzie Street" series
Annie is the sole owner of a laundromat on MacKenzie Street in Chicago Illinois when she meets young, female Taylor who just moved into the basement apartment across the street. Taylor thinks she's hiding something but Annie knows her secret. She's just waiting to hear it from Taylor.
The writing style here does nothing to hold my interest. I find the characters annoying. Things are often repeated such as the laundromat being able to run itself and how she could run upstairs or down to make sure things were okay.
I found myself skimming through some of the pages to hurry it along. It had one of those "ya right!" endings. A fairy tale ending if you ask me.
Annie is the sole owner of a laundromat on MacKenzie Street in Chicago Illinois when she meets young, female Taylor who just moved into the basement apartment across the street. Taylor thinks she's hiding something but Annie knows her secret. She's just waiting to hear it from Taylor.
The writing style here does nothing to hold my interest. I find the characters annoying. Things are often repeated such as the laundromat being able to run itself and how she could run upstairs or down to make sure things were okay.
I found myself skimming through some of the pages to hurry it along. It had one of those "ya right!" endings. A fairy tale ending if you ask me.
October 28, 2011
As a former foster mom to a baby that husband and I had hoped to adopt but who was returned to his birth mother for a short time until she lost custody again, this was a good story for me to read - the difference being this "foster" mom did get to keep the baby until the young teenage mom wanted him back, but not for noble reasons that had anything to do with being his mother and raising him in a safe and loving environment. AHHHH! Hurt, hurt, hurt for foster mom. The author did a GREAT job of presenting the conflict vividly and realistically.
September 18, 2007
Love this series, focuses on the lives of individuals of a particular neighborhood. This one focuses on a woman who takes in a young mother to be.
(I read these book out of order).
May 6, 2008
I couldn't get into it, but really didn't go further than the first chapter.
March 21, 2016
It was okay. I enjoyed the story but found myself skimming it a lot to get to new content about the actual story line.
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