"The Song of Sourwood Mountain" is the lovely story of a "spinster" school teacher in Kentucky in 1910. She is reasonsibly contented in her present life five years post the loss of her fiance to tuberculosis. Out of the blue, Gordon Covington, a childhood schoolmate, shows up and asks her to marry him and become the new school teacher in a tiny rural town in Eastern Kentucky. At the same time, she loses her job and place to live. The book chronicles her journey to fall in love and find acceptance in this new life.
The book is an enjoyable read. My only complaint with the book is that it is only one book. I think it would have served better as a series to give more time and place to draw out the nuances of the characters. The ending is a tiny bit rushed in order to draw it to a conclusion.
I received an advanced reader copy of the book as part of the Revell Reads blogger team in exchange for my honest opinion.
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