This fifth book about Beatrice Convey, Beebs, is completely engaging. It is warm, embracing, humorous and poetic. Beebs' daily life includes her family, her friends, her community and her writing. The reader joins her on a trip to a dress shop, a lunch date, an exploration of woodlands, a wedding in a pasture, a brunch at Tom's . . . Throughout are charming details of home life, more Gram stories, more children's stories and the result of a special commission Beebs accepts from Penny Pritchard. Rejoin your favorite Beebs, Cal, Colleen, Pogie and Artie, Bunny, David, Officer Hanrahan and others. Sit down, open "A Clear View" and enter Beebs' world once again.