Novelist Agnes Sligh Turnbull was born in 1888 in New Alexandria, PA. After a dozen years as a short story writer, Turnbull wrote her first novel, The Rolling Years, published in 1936. In the 14 additional novels she wrote over the next 40-plus years, Turnbull built a thorough chronicle of the Scots who settled and farmed rural Westmoreland County. Turnbull died in 1982.
A bit of a slog to get through the whole book. Not her best work. Dismally predictable, although I really did expect some redemption of Alex in the end. Written in 1938, only 20 years after the end of World War I -- the beginning of which appears near the end of the book. And only a year before the beginning of World War II.
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