A Gathering Light

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a few days after, i am aware of plenty of weak spots - underwritten parts, the ambition of too many storylines that maybe with a little pruning would have resulted in a fantastic book that i would want to read again and again.

Because, ultimately, this is simply the story of Mattie Gokey, a sixteen-year-old girl, the eldest of four daughters being "cared for" by a grieving father who lost the love of his life and is too lost in his grief to see that his girls are suffering as well. Now that is something worth reading and pondering on, like Willa Cather's O Pioneers where the protagonist makes peace with shattered expectations. Especially since I often go through the same dilemma, even in this day and age, thanks to the backward society I'm from. The thin cardboard envelope the book was posted in had ripped and Royal Mail had to put it in one of their plastic envelopes.She has made her peace with Grace because she decided to show the letters to the world so now every one can see the true, tragic story of Grace Brown. In the past, Mattie Cokey remembers her life on her family's farm in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. Working at the Glenmore hotel gives her the chance to earn her tuition, but will she be able to leave everyone she loves behind? Mattie, suspicious of the circumstances surrounding her death, begins to read the letters Grace gave her.

It follows Cinderella's wicked stepsister Isabelle as personifications of fate and chance battle for control of her life, hinting that there may be hope after all for a girl labeled "ugly" since her first appearances in literature. On July 12, 1906, the body of a young woman named Grace Brown was pulled from the waters of Big Moose Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. A incredible and wonderful novel of a young woman's coming-of-age set against the backdrop of a real murder. S. as The Golden Compass (Knopf, 1996), so only one Northern Light(s) title was used on each continent. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

This is such a beautifully moving story, character driven, with so many different events happening, that I was very involved in this time period of 1905-1906, in the setting of the Adirondack Mountains. Without a doubt, A Northern Light is very possibly the best book I've read - and will read - this year.