A Gathering Light

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With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that.

Plain and poor but charged with her own special beauty and her own drive to speak out with her own voice.Described as “rich and true” by The New York Times, the book was named to the Best Book lists of The Times (London), The Irish Times, The Financial Times, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and the School Library Journal.

i don't mean this to be disparaging (observe how i have grown in my teen fiction stance), but younger readers lack the literary scope of people who have been around the block a few times with a few books. And now I'll review it, and hopefully I'll do it justice so that you'll go read and fall in love with it too. I loved both of them, but I really applaud Jennifer Donnelly for successfully capturing two heroines who are poles apart. It's the cruelest kind of paradox, one that only arrives when you love a protagonist as much as this one. It is also into this story that the body of a female guest at the hotel where Mattie works is found and this becomes one of the many threads of the book.

She also loves books and in their small town, the only source of a local library comes in the form of a resident’s ramshackle pickle boat. Lindsay Fraser, Sunday Herald 'A GATHERING LIGHT is a remarkable debut, a book that sweeps across the genre boundaries of murder, mystery, romance, and historical fiction - resulting in an original novel that is both gripping and touching. While they are both working at the eloquent Glenmore on Big Moose Lake that summer, a young woman’s body is found drowned on its banks. Whilst working at a hotel, she is given a stack of letters by Grace, one of the female guests and told to burn them—the day before the woman is found drowned.