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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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Widowed Mrs. Louise Howard Smith teaches piano as well as keeping the inn's books. Alice Howard is a part-time nurse. Divorced Jane Howard was a professional chef in San Francisco. She does the cooking and gardening. They share in housekeeping tasks.
These books have a formula: there will be a main problem and one or more problems for subplots. Guests and/or townspeople will be involved. Faith will play a part in resolving the problems.
It's New Year's Day and Jane is fixing a Southern-style dish for dinner. Alice is working. Their Aunt Ethel is supposed to be helping Louise take down the decorations, but she's not really doing much. (If the family were Catholic, those decorations would stay up until January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany.)
Alice's stories concern a newborn boy who might not live, and his young parents won't accept help except through the hospital. She accepts a speaking engagement, although it unnerves her, in the hope of getting money to help that baby.
Jane's story involves a widower named Lyndon Sturgis. I suspect he was a character in a previous book I haven't read. Anyway, Mr. Sturgis wants to build a house in the Acorn Hill area and wants to hire Jane to help him do that. Mr. Sturgis is impatient and often doesn't listen.
Louise has been asked to help associate pastor Henry Ley and his wife, Patsy, with their 'Making Marriage Matter' project. A young couple, Kat and Eggy Wickham, will stay at Grace Chapel Inn and be mentored in what makes a successful marriage. Louise, a widow who had a highly successful marriage, will be one voice. An older couple, Maggie and G. W. 'Mac' McGuffey, will also stay at the inn to help.
Of course things don't go as planned. Mr. Sturgis is making things more difficult for himself, Jane, and the building contractor she recommended, Clark. Barrett.
The poor Leys have so much literature they've researched and tests they want to give, but the tests aren't exactly popular with the Wickhams or the McGuffeys.
Things really go wrong for Alice at the conference. Among other things, the friend she was going to stay with needs a place to stay herself because of a problem at home. Thank goodness Agnes Pennington, who was Louise's next-door neighbor when she lived in Philadelphia, is going to visit at the inn while Alice and Virginia house-sit for her.
Agnes is a very engaging example of an elderly character who still lively and vital. I loved her reactions to some of the activities for Making Marriage Matter. She shares her own story about how she married her late husband, Woody (Woodrow). It was a sweet romance. (The song 'As Time Goes By' from that classic movie 'Casablanca', was Agnes and Woody's song.)
We do get to read Alice's speech, which I liked.
NOTES:
Chapter 2: my late father came from a long line of sons and daughters of the Old South, and according to him, only a [significant pause -- because that kind of language was not permitted in our house -- before heaping scorn on the next word] would put sugar in it and call it corn bread. Corn bread with sugar in it is johnnycake! We don't know if Jane is being authentic about her corn bread.
Chapter 6: See book 2, Going to the Chapel, for how the Leys came to live in the rectory while Pastor Thompson lives in an apartment.
Chapter 11 mentions a World War II treat, 'sweet milk,' which is not what the term means in the Old South.
See chapter 22 for a dumb stunt Mr. Sturgis pulled that is going to cost him time and money in getting his house ready.
See chapter 23 for what name Baby New Year was given.
The recipe for this book is New Year's Day Hoppin' John.
Cat lovers: Wendell, the Howard's big gray tabby, does appear. ( )