Lady of Milkweed Manor by Julie Klassen
Title: Lady of Milkweed Manor
Author/website(s): Julie Klassen
416 pages
Publisher: Bethany House
Publication date: January ’08
Genre: Historical fiction, faith-based (faith does not dominate the storyline)
Review book or pleasure reading: Pleasure reading
New-to-me author: Yes
Would I recommend this book: Undecided (I wasn’t very interested in some of the subject matter: wet-nursing/childcare)
Would I read more from this author: I have Ms. Klassen’s second novel, The Apothecary’s Daughter on my Kindle as it was also offered as free eBook.
Journal notes: Pleasure reading – no review.
Even a proper vicar’s daughter can make a mistake…and now Charlotte Lamb must pay a high price for her fall. To avoid the prying eyes of all who know her, she hides herself away in London’s forbidding “Milkweed Manor,” a place of mystery and lore, of old secrets and new birth.
But once there, she comes face to face with a suitor from her past–a man who now hides secrets of his own. Both are determined, with God’s help, to protect those they love. But neither can imagine the depth of sacrifice that will be required.
Sprinkled with fascinating details about the lives of women in Regency England, Lady of Milkweed Manor is a moving romantic drama about the redemption of past failings and the beauty of sacrificial love.
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Your comment made me think of my experience reading Midwives by Chris Bohjalian. It brought back so many memories of my birthing difficulties that I couldn’t finish the book.
I don’t think this book is for me since I’m way past that phase of my life!