Here Burns My Candle (4 books in series)
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review 1: Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune. She is unafraid of work and gifted with a needle, but how will she stitch together the tattered remnants of her life? And who will me...
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review 1: This book does not deserve any stars and I have to say it is a pretty annoying one... yet I listened to the whole thing asI hate stopping partway through a book, so I stuck with it and kept hoping the writing would get better but it was a vain hope. The characters were not well d...
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review 1: Liz Curtis Higgs has done it again: written a Biblical allegory beautifully set in a Scottish background. This time, she takes the story of Ruth and Naomi from Ruth 1:1-18. Lady Elisabeth Kerr and Dowager Lady Marjory Kerr live in Edinburgh in 1745, just as bonny Prince Charlie r...
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review 1: Ugh. This book drrraaaaagggggeeeeddd on forever. It was recommended to me and I was excited to read it. But I had such a hard time getting through it. I looked at other reviews and most people said you have to get halfway through it when it picks up. Then I read that it is a ret...