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 | The Scent of Lilacs by Ann H. Gabhart | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Revell
http://www.bethany house.com ISBN: 0800730801 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Melodrama Release date: May 1, 2005 Format: Paperback Pages: 345 Price: $10.39 | |||
| In 1964 in Hollyhill, Kentucky, the owner of the Hollyhill Barrier, David Brooke, knows why he can only be an interim pastor at the Mt. Pleasant Church -- because the congregation expects its leader to be married. Thus, David works the newspaper to feed his extended family and the church out of love. Seven years ago, David’s wife, Adrienne, had left without a look back, taking their thirteen-year-old daughter, Tabitha, with her. She had left behind their other child, six-year-old, Jocie. David’s septuagenarian Aunt, Love lives with them, but he feels more like a referee between his two female relatives than their kin.
Jocie wants to know about her family and what made Aunt Love into a preaching stoic spinster who is turning senile, except for her biblical citations, and why her mother left, especially without her. Jocie would also like to see her older sister, who’ll turn twenty shortly. As Jocie investigates her roots, secrets some would prefer left hidden begin to surface; she learns more about her aunt, her parents, and even the newspaper pressman. The Scent of Lilacs is a well-written Christian historical family drama that readers will deeply cherish. Jocie is a great inquisitive young teen struggling to understand the dynamics that engulf her in a shroud. The totally in black Aunt Love will surprise readers when they learn, alongside Jocie, about her past. Finally, David is split apart as he suffers with the guilt over his broken marriage and loss of a child and finding solace tending to his flock so that secularly he feels broken while spiritually connected. Ann. H. Gabhart provides an inspirational family drama. | |||
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