That Camden Summer
LaVyrle Spencer, known for her "heartrending slices of Americana" writes of how love can be more special the second time around... It is 1916 and Roberta Jewett is surprised that her hometown of Camden, Maine, considers a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. She nonetheless perseveres...
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LaVyrle Spencer, known for her "heartrending slices of Americana" writes of how love can be more special the second time around... It is 1916 and Roberta Jewett is surprised that her hometown of Camden, Maine, considers a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. She nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a new and better life for her daughters there. Behaving like no "respectable" woman would, she gets a job as a county nurse, learns to drive, and buys her very own Model T. Embittered by her painful marriage to an unfaithful husband, she has no intention of being any man's victim again. So Roberta is taken aback to find the widowed carpenter Gabriel Farley has somehow found his way into her heart. And in the ultimate test of will and devotion, she must depend on the man she has grown to love-and summon the courage to stand up to an entire town.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425233214 (0425233219)
Publish date: January 5th 2010
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pages no: 388
Edition language: English
Okay, this one - hmmm. First of all the narrator is David Dukes who is great on TV, but makes the men sound like the guys from the Smuckers or Long John Silvers commercials. Yes, I get that this takes place in Maine, but it was such a caricature of the men. Now the women with slight differences w...
My first LS book and had me hooked on her books from there. I think it was almost written on a very shocking subject, but it was so clean and pure in its' romantic side that I simply loved it.
Task 5.7 - TSRC Challenge - book with a mode of transportation on the cover