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Summary: A romantic journey
Review: I first read the short story version of this book in Good HouseKeeping and went right to the nearest bookstore to order my copy. I read the novel in two days and numerous times since then. The caracters make you feel as if you are a part of the family. I wish all families were as commited to each other in these troubled times. The book is a great escape to a easier time in life. Im looking forward to more novels from Ms Turner.
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Summary: Very enjoyable read that leaves you hoping for a sequel.
Review: A strong heroine and a "Clark Gable-ish" hero. Lots of wonderfully rich detail of life in the early American southwest territories.
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Summary: It's so good I'm buying it for gifts for family and friends.
Review: this book is a real page turner. One exciting surprise after another, in excellent writing style. My friends are happy to receive it as a gift, and claim they can't get cleaning, cooking or anything else done, because they're reading the book. Excellent writer.
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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read!
Review: I read an excerpt of this book in Good Housekeeping and then carried Nancy Turner's name around in my pocketbook until I had the chance to get it from the library. After I finished the book, I read it again so that I could fully appreciate the beautiful writing by Ms. Turner. The story was interesting, exciting, funny, and sad. I could easily visualize the characters and their surroundings in the Arizona Territories. I absolutely did not want the book to end. I hope Ms. Turner writes a sequel. I want to know what happens to Sarah and her family. Read this book! You won't be sorry.
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Summary: The hardships and joys of a woman in the Old West.
Review: It was a wonderful read. It was richly descriptive without being wordy. I laughed, I cried, I did not want it to end. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Could not put it down.
Review: An excellent combination of history, one-person's (fictional) experience of it and her inner world as expressed in her private diary. This book really got me. I related to it on several different levels. My great-grandmother lived during this era and not far from these places; my grandmother (born in 1899, who died just this year) could have been one of Sarah's children. The different experiences Sarah and her family had while on the trail were at once historically fascinating, sometimes quite frightening and always personally riveting. The love story between Sarah and Jack -- while occasionally predictable -- was in total very real and touching. I found myself thinking of my own relationships, and learning from Sarah as she thought and wrote about hers. Sarah was a strong, competent, independent woman who did not deny her need for love and who honored her relationships with the women in her life. A good model for any of us.I read this book in two sittings, staying up till 2 a.m. till finished - something I haven't done for a long, long time....I'm a single mom with three teens, a house and a busy career. My 11 year old daughter is reading it next!
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Summary: Absorbing and personally moving.
Review: A fabulous read, filled with detailed adventure, hardship, love and sorrow as a woman grows from her late teen years to mid-life. Sarah Prine's view of life in the Arizona territory is humorous, spunky, and admirable as she balks at no task before her and gradually submits to the love of an independent man and builds a life with him.
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read from any genre.
Review: I got this book for someone interested in frontier tales and reluctantly read it. It is excellent. I felt I knew Sarah Prine and was as concerned for her as I would be for any friend. It made me laugh out loud and cry enough to alarm my husband. Nancy E. Turner is amazing. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Outstanding,
Review: It's a GREAT read. This is Nancy Turner's first book, and I hope she continues to write. It's a fascinating book, in the form of diary writings, from late teenage years going into the Arizona Territories, through-out her adulthood, marriage, children, and working the ranch that she bought for herself with 'soap money' she set aside. It's poignant, happy, sad, all the things that made up her life and the lives of her friends and family. Karen Bush
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Summary: Best novel I have read in years and years!
Review: This books is so refreshing. Clean enough to read to the whole family. Romantic enough to satisfy the womanly dreams we all possess. Exciting and adventurous too. The author has a strong gift of words - an ability to paint pictures using a colorful array of sentences. I am extremely picky about my reading and don't find much I really, really like. This is the book of a lifetime, I'll never forget it! Highly recommended and kudos to Nancy Turner!!
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