LaVyrle Spencer, known for her “heartrending slices of Americana”* writes of how love can be more special the second time around in this New York Times bestseller.
It is 1916 and Roberta Jewett is surprised to find that her hometown of Camden, Maine, considers a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. 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.
“[LaVyrle Spencer] knows how to tug at readers’ heartstrings.”—*Publishers Weekly
Praise for That Camden Summer
“A modern fairy tale.”—People
“Deft, unpretentious, and down-to-earth, LaVyrle Spencer...never fails to please.”—The Anniston Star
More Praise for LaVyrle Spencer
“Superb.”—Los Angeles Times
“Warm and folksy and loving.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Leaves the reader breathless.”—New York Daily News
“[Spencer] delivers the goods.”—Publishers Weekly
LaVyrle Spencer is a contemporary and historical romance novelist who has written twelveNew York Times bestsellers. Whether set in the Old West or in present day suburban Minnesota, a Spencer novel means seeing love in a new light and meeting characters so real it's all you can do not to climb into the pages yourself. Several of Spencer's books have been made into movies (Publishers Weekly called one of her television deals "precedent-setting") and in 1988 she was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She lives with her husband, Dan, in North Oaks, Minnesota.
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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 in this New York Times bestseller.
It is 1916 and Roberta Jewett is surprised to find that her hometown of Camden, Maine, considers a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. 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.
“[LaVyrle Spencer] knows how to tug at readers’ heartstrings.”—*Publishers Weekly
Praise
Praise for That Camden Summer
“A modern fairy tale.”—People
“Deft, unpretentious, and down-to-earth, LaVyrle Spencer...never fails to please.”—The Anniston Star
More Praise for LaVyrle Spencer
“Superb.”—Los Angeles Times
“Warm and folksy and loving.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Leaves the reader breathless.”—New York Daily News
“[Spencer] delivers the goods.”—Publishers Weekly
Author
LaVyrle Spencer is a contemporary and historical romance novelist who has written twelveNew York Times bestsellers. Whether set in the Old West or in present day suburban Minnesota, a Spencer novel means seeing love in a new light and meeting characters so real it's all you can do not to climb into the pages yourself. Several of Spencer's books have been made into movies (Publishers Weekly called one of her television deals "precedent-setting") and in 1988 she was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She lives with her husband, Dan, in North Oaks, Minnesota.
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