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Plain Paradise (2010)

by Beth Wiseman(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1595548238 (ISBN13: 9781595548238)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Thomas Nelson Publishers

series

Daughters of the Promise

review 1: "Josie was just a frightened teenager when she left her baby in the care of an Old Order Amish couple in Lancaster County. Since then, seventeen years have passed and while much has changed, one thing hasn't. Josie still longs to reconnect with her daughter Linda.But Linda is unaware of Josie--and living an idyllic life within the Amish community. The bishop's grandson, Stephen, is courting her and she hopes that he will propose soon. When her birth mother comes to Paradise, Linda finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Josie's world. Meanwhile, her adoptive parents--and her Amish beau--are trying to understand how this interruption in Linda's life could possibly be God's will.As new relationships begin and old ones are tested, no one's life will remain the same. In the proces... mores of losing and letting go--Linda realizes whose daugther she really is. And as only God can do, something more powerful and far more beautiful is forged within the Daugthers of the Promise community...hope."
review 2: I usually don't like books where birth mothers come out of the wood works wanting a relationship with a child she gave up for adoption, they usually end with the idiot daughter choosing her birth mother over her "real" mom. This one, was perfectly written. There was love and understand, there was angst, but reasonably done, not overdone. The ending "miracle" was bit cliche, but can you really say that in a Christian book? I have seen with my own eyes miracles from God, so in this book, while a bit cliche (and drawn from a real-life miracle in the author's life), it works beyond anything I have ever read before on this subject. I am moving on to the final book in the series and then going to see how I like the Land of Canaan series. less

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