Alice Wright,a young English girl meets and marries a man, Bennett Van Cleve from Kentucky who was on a tour with his father. It was a whirlwind marriage that failed abysmally for a variety of reasons, and had repercussions throughout a small Kentucky town.
To escape from the situation she finds herself in, Alice heeds a call to join a WPA group needing librarians who have riding skills. The life she begins, to live are almost terminated by her father-in-law, an unscrupulous mine owner using blackmail and lies to ruin her and her companions.
A quick paced book with vivid depictions of Appalachian life, very fine writing and a terrific ending.
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