A Morning Like This (Wheeler Romance)

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Summary: A Morning Like This
Review: David and Abby Treasure are a happily-married couple in their mid thirties. Their family life is picture perfect. He has a stable job in banking and teaches Sunday school. She is a counsellor at a battered women's shelter and is a little league mom. Their 10 year-old son is healthy, popular and well-behaved. However, all stability evaporates when a long-hidden infidelity comes to light. This affair has a ripple effect which extends over the entire community.

This novel takes a close look at how a breach of trust can threaten and almost destroy a family. The novel focuses on the emotional impact of an affiar. The defensiveness and blame-shifting of the unfaithful spouse, the crushed self-esteem and irrational anger of the betrayed spouse, the panic of the children, and the mutual resentment of all parties concerned are explored in this novel. As author Deborah Bedford points out in her afterword, the story was inspired by actual events.

The writing is dramatic and fast-paced. The characters are at once both plausible and surprising. All the characters are sympathetically portrayed. This helps the reader to think about marital infidelity from several angles. The author includes a bibliography of readings for couples in crisis. This book is an insightful work on recovery and forgiveness from a Christian perspective.

Rating:
Summary: A Morning Like This
Review: David and Abby Treasure are a happily-married couple in their mid thirties. Their family life is picture perfect. He has a stable job in banking and teaches Sunday school. She is a counsellor at a battered women's shelter and is a little league mom. Their 10 year-old son is healthy, popular and well-behaved. However, all stability evaporates when a long-hidden infidelity comes to light. This affair has a ripple effect which extends over the entire community.

This novel takes a close look at how a breach of trust can threaten and almost destroy a family. The novel focuses on the emotional impact of an affiar. The defensiveness and blame-shifting of the unfaithful spouse, the crushed self-esteem and irrational anger of the betrayed spouse, the panic of the children, and the mutual resentment of all parties concerned are explored in this novel. As author Deborah Bedford points out in her afterword, the story was inspired by actual events.

The writing is dramatic and fast-paced. The characters are at once both plausible and surprising. All the characters are sympathetically portrayed. This helps the reader to think about marital infidelity from several angles. The author includes a bibliography of readings for couples in crisis. This book is an insightful work on recovery and forgiveness from a Christian perspective.

Rating:
Summary: A Morning Like This
Review: I loved this book. We recently moved to Jackson which makes it even better. ha.. There are things that I am currently going through which are unrelated to the story plot but I recieved a message from it.

This is a story of an affair that was covered over for years and suddenly surfaces with a child in need. David Treasures has to deal with his own personal Christian walk and his attempt to keep his affair a secret or lose everything. This book deals with true emotions and touched on other issues you might have in your everyday Christian walk. You watch as Abigail struggles with her own issues of betrayal and forgiveness. I encourage you to read this book and get lost in Deborah's wonderful way with words. PS: You might need a tissue.. I did.. : )

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Summary: Will move the reader emotionally and spiritually ...
Review: Imagine you have just celebrated your twelfth wedding anniversary. Life is wonderfully beautiful -- until one day, out of the blue -- the past comes back to haunt you in the worst way possible. This happens to David and Abby Treasure.

David has an announcement for Abby, his wife of 12 years. The results of his announcement will bring to light heartache and pain that ordinarily tear even the strongest married couple apart. Abby Treasure finds out her husband had an affair nine years ago while she was pregnant with their son. The woman David had an affair with calls him requesting a meeting. At this meeting, David finds out he has a little girl that he never knew about. Even more devastating, the little girl has leukemia and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. David and his son are prime candidates as donors.

With extraordinary writing, Deborah Bedford delivers a novel that will move the reader emotionally and spiritually. Forgiveness and redemption are powerfully displayed as Abby comes to grips with David's betrayal and the "other" woman, whose child is dying. While this book is fictional, the themes that run througout the novel can surely encourage a real-life married couple going through heartaches in their own marriage.

--- reviewed by Tyora Moody for Christian Bookshelf

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Summary: Not so good . . .
Review: This book was a total bore. What a disappointment. The author did not create any buy-in for the reader to connect with the characters, and the story was pretty predictable. Lots of geographic references. Average to poor writing ability.