Ratings4
Average rating3.6
Not quite my cup of tea, primarily because so many awful things happen to the heroine and she is miserable for about 75% of the novel. I wish Chamberlain had devoted more pages to her finding her strength and her place in Hickory. In fact there is an adventure alluded to in the final pages that I wish had been portrayed instead of just mentioned.
Interesting information about the devastating polio epidemic. Those of us born since the vaccine was created have no idea how lucky we are to live without that particular fear.