![]() ![]() At one point she says that at first, she wanted nothing to do with the child but when asked if she now feels differently, "I nod, almost ashamed to admit to the emotional connection I've felt to the child recently." The pro-life cause is even highlighted, as young Matilda's maternal instincts develop and she becomes increasingly attached to the new life growing in her womb. Although I don't believe this novel is marketed as Catholic fiction per se, it showcases so many virtues that line up with the teachings of our Faith, including courage, humility, self-sacrifice, forgiveness, and most of all, love. There are a couple of sweet romantic storylines, but all is chaste and lovely-you will not find yourself blushing in the least. ![]() This fascinating story, a page-turner of a book, delves into and connects the lives of Grace, Matilda, and Harriet-with some surprising twists along the way. Matilda becomes the ward of a distant relative-and lighthouse keeper-named Harriet Flaherty, whose curmudgeonly demeanor hints at a tragic past. Gaynor's absorbing tale goes back and forth between 18 and seamlessly intertwines the lives of Grace Darling, a real life 19th-century English lighthouse keeper's daughter known as "the Heroine of Farne Isles," who became famous for risking her life in a horrific storm to help rescue some survivors of a deadly shipwreck, and the fictional Matilda Emmerson, a 20th-century Irish girl whose out-of-wedlock pregnancy lands her in Maine. ![]()
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