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This excellent novel, made up of a lifetime's correspondence from a woman to her family and friends running from the turn of the last Century to 1968, is a page-turner in all the best senses of that phrase. I cried at least twice while I was reading this story (an unusual occurrence for me) and couldn't read it quickly enough in order to find out what would happen next.
The author is very sneaky in that she gives Bess noble motives but a less-than-ideal way of going about them. She runs a fine th ...more
The author is very sneaky in that she gives Bess noble motives but a less-than-ideal way of going about them. She runs a fine th ...more
Surely an all-time favorite—I can’t wait to reread this book at different seasons of life. Bess will surely stay with me.
Apr 14, 2016
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