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First tagged "life changing" by Darcie E. Chan
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Product Description
Disfigured by a blow of an violent husband, and pang her whole life with serious amicable stress disorder, a widow Mary McAllister spends roughly sixty years isolated in a white marble palace unaware a city of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to a outward universe are few: a mail, a media, an aged clergyman with a guilty robe of theft spoons, and a bedroom window with a perspective of a city below.
Most longtime residents of Mill River cruise a marble residence and a passenger peculiar, yet insignificant, fixtures. An arsonist, a selfish nurse, and a endearing encampment simpleton are among a few who have ever seen Mary. Newcomers to Mill River--a military officer and his daughter and a new fourth class teacher--are also extraordinary about a reserved aged woman. But usually Father Michael O'Brien knows Mary and a tip she keeps--one that, once revealed, will change all of their lives forever.
The Mill River Recluse is a story of delight over tragedy, one that reminds us of a value of loyalty and a ability of adore to come from a many astonishing of places.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #96 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-05-18
- Released on: 2011-05-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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"Chan's honeyed novel displays her talent." ~ Kirkus Reviews
"...a genuine page-turner." ~ IndieReader.com
Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller!
About a Author
Darcie Chan was innate in Wisconsin and grew adult in a tiny towns of Brandon, Wisconsin, La Junta and Cheraw, Colorado, and Paoli, Indiana. She has dual younger sisters.
Thanks to amatory and understanding relatives who are both educators, she schooled to review and write during an early age. As a child, she fell in adore with books and became utterly spooky with Walter Farley's Black Stallion series of books, among many others. Her passion for reading and essay continued by college during Indiana University, Bloomington, and law propagandize during a University of Baltimore. Currently, she is an profession with a Office of a Legislative Counsel, United States Senate, where she drafts environmental and healthy apparatus legislation.
In her gangling time, Darcie enjoys spending time with her family, reading, essay fiction, gardening, personification piano, and cooking. She lives in northern Westchester County, New York, with her father (whom she initial met as a comparison in high propagandize during a inhabitant scholarship competition), their son, and dual cats.
The Mill River Recluse is her initial novel.
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403 of 424 people found a following examination helpful.
A Stateside Maeve Binchy
By Lena Amarosa
Maeve Binchy fans, compensate attention: Darcie Chan is your stateside solution. Chan's mural of parochial life in Vermont evokes a lovable, quirky characters of _Circle of Friends_ or _Tara Road_, though with a character and suggestion all her own.
The reader settles into a lessen and upsurge of life in Chan's Mill River easily, even as a author toggles between past events and a present. While Chan moves a story along skillfully, a biggest strength of _The Mill River Recluse_ is a characters. Chan's internal adults (both past and present) are lovingly drawn and immediately recognizable. As a tract unfolds, we come to know and know her heroes (villains, too) in a many healthy way.
A feel-good story that never turns saccharine, _The Mill River Recluse_ will not disappoint. Indeed, as a final paragraphs close, a reader wants zero some-more than usually to spend a few some-more pages in Chan's Mill River.
1038 of 1106 people found a following examination helpful.
WOW!!! we am a BELIEVER!!!!
By Karen Grigg
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324 of 342 people found a following examination helpful.
A RUTLAND, VERMONT REVIEW
By greenwave 64
As stated, we live in Rutland, Vt. usually 3-4 miles from Mill River (in Clarendon, Vt.). Mrs. Chan was really good with her investigate of this area (as we know she has never been here) -- a towns nearby Rutland, a Marble attention and even a people were mark on. we entirely enjoyed this story. She has a knack of not losing a storyline and gripping her characters real. This was one of a best 99 cents we have spent and am looking brazen to some-more of her work.
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