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Cargando... Lily of the Springspor Carole Bellacera
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The 50's...Drive-in Movies, Doo-wop Music...and Love in the Back Seat of a '51 PlymouthIn 1952 Kentucky, 18-year-old Lily Foster, the daughter of strict Southern Baptist parents, becomes pregnant by the town "bad boy"-and just like that, she finds herself married to a man who doesn't want to be a husband. Jake has no intention of letting the inconvenience of marriage stop him from what he believes is his due. In actuality, Lily is the one who is trapped. She loves Jake-always has, since they were children playing in the woods on adjoining properties--and she's convinced she can eventually make him love her. All it will take is desire and patience. Once the baby arrives, they will be the perfect little family.From Lily's home on Opal Springs Ridge to a four-year stint at an army base in New Boston, Texas, and finally, to life on their own in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Lily struggles to maintain a rocky marriage with a moody, immature husband while raising two daughters. Set during the "American Dream" period of the '50s and into the turbulent '60's, LILY OF THE SPRINGS is a story of a woman's indomitable spirit and her fight for independence and identity in an "Ozzie & Harriet" society. "LILY OF THE SPRINGS is like a slow dance to a Patsy Cline song in the arms of your one true love. From the very first page, it draws you back to another time and place and makes you want to stay there forever. Carole Bellacera is a master storyteller."...Teresa Medeiros, New York Times bestselling author of GOODNIGHT TWEETHEART"LILY OF THE SPRINGS is an epic story about Lily Ray Foster's poor choice in the man she marries that takes a generation to right. Clashes between Lily and her husband Jake and Lily and her mother-in-law sizzle with excitement. A poignant and epic romance novel that's hard to put down. Erotic, explosive, shattering, realistic--Carole Bellacera's new romance novel has them all and a whole lot more."--Rose Campion, author of NO TIME TO CRY and the forthcoming SINNERS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS . No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book starts off in the early ‘50s, with 18-year-old Lily Rae Foster about to go off to college. Her strict upbringing has enforced a ‘conservative’ approach to relationships with boys, and she dumps her high-school boyfriend when he tries to ‘go too far’. However, she wastes little time before finding herself pregnant to handsome, but rough-around-the-edges childhood friend, Jake. Forced into an early marriage, two people find themselves together but alone. Jake is the son of a mother, disenchanted with her marriage, and a violent father. The apple does not fall far from the tree. Lily loves her dysfunctional, husband deeply, but she has to fight for her independence, sometimes her safety, and does her best to do right by herself and her children.
Carole manages to make you hang on to every word; and what lovely words…the Kentucky-flavoured turn of phrase is delightful, especially to this Brit’s ‘ears’, and brought a smile to my face. But, what really keeps you glued to the pages—or rather ‘who’—is Lily and in some respects, Jake. Lily is loving and forgiving, but she nevertheless stands her ground; although her college education was cut short, her intelligence, determination, and sheer gutsiness sees her through disappointment and humiliation. Jake is a drunk who thinks the world owes him a wife who should do nothing but please her man in every respect. But, like Lily, the reader can see a glimmer, albeit a faint glimmer, of a man who probably does love Lily and hates himself for his treatment of her. Whether or not she can change him remains to be seen.
If I had to pick one thing I didn’t like, it would only be the recipes and photographs between certain chapters. The recipes belonged at the end, if they had to be there at all and the colour photographs (lost on a black-and-white Kindle) were distracting. If they were meant to depict the characters, they had more of a tendency to destroy my own images of them. I would have preferred them not to be there.
This is a lovely story, spanning 25 years with a spunky heroine and nostalgic references to the ‘50s and ‘60s and an 'I wonder if' ending. Terrific.
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