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The Lochmoor Glen Series #1
Patience, My Dear
You will find that this love story, wrapped in a beautiful full-color photographed cover is the perfect gift!! Discover the treasured contents of the carved "box" pictured on the cover! You or that special reader will step back in time to 1913 Britain and enjoy the sweet, yet complex romance, depicted in so many of the cherished classics of the silver screen. Twelve chapters, introduced with poetic excerpts authored by the great poets of yesteryear open the world of Scotland's McDonnally clan. This quick-paced novel is filled with love and loss, humor and heartache and mysterious twists laced with just enough historical information to make learning a pleasure. Arianna Snow has based this novel on "familiar" characters from all walks of life and contain no graphic sex or offensive language.
Back Cover-"Can the tender romance between the compassionate, high-spirited Naomi and the impervious, self-absorbed, prominent member of the McDonnally clan, be rekindled after an eighteen year separation?
Naomi, now thirty-five, motivated by the enduring faith that enabled her to overcome a destined life of unbearable solitude, commits to the arduous task of confronting her first and only love, the uncommonly handsome, Hiram.
In her attempts to draw him out of fruitless isolation, she quickly discovers that his reproachful attitude intensifies her challenge to make amends for their lost years together and... that the plan God has for us is not necessarily our own. Check out the sequel MY MAGIC SQUARE !!
Back Cover-"Can the tender romance between the compassionate, high-spirited Naomi and the impervious, self-absorbed, prominent member of the McDonnally clan, be rekindled after an eighteen year separation?
Naomi, now thirty-five, motivated by the enduring faith that enabled her to overcome a destined life of unbearable solitude, commits to the arduous task of confronting her first and only love, the uncommonly handsome, Hiram.
In her attempts to draw him out of fruitless isolation, she quickly discovers that his reproachful attitude intensifies her challenge to make amends for their lost years together and... that the plan God has for us is not necessarily our own. Check out the sequel MY MAGIC SQUARE !!
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Published January 1, 2005
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August 19, 2018
Really enjoyed my first book by this author! Exactly what I was looking for!
June 23, 2011
A "clean" love story set in Scotland in the early 1900's. The story was okay, nothing extraordinary. I did find the editing style to feel patronizing. For example, it uses parentheses to give the pronunciation of the main character's name after already mentioning her name several times. Either do it at first or not at all is what I say. Also, many of the traditional Scottish foods they eat in the book are followed by a detailed description in parentheses. To me, that detracted from the flow of the story. I prefer a glossary of pronunciations and definitions for those who feel they need to know more. Let the reader stay "in the story" more without having extra information that isn't critical to the plot.
February 2, 2010
I picked this up when I saw the current installment on the "new release" shelf at the library with no expectations and I really enjoyed it. I can't wait to read the next one. Because it is such a short novel, there wasn't as much room for character development and description that I would have enjoyed, but the upside of this was that the story developed quickly.
And who doesn't love a love story set in Scotland?
And who doesn't love a love story set in Scotland?
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