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De Sneeuwvalk (2000)

by Stuart Harrison(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9026981791 (ISBN13: 9789026981791)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Van Holkema & Warendorf

review 1: Well told in a gentle way - one expects more of an explosive reaction to Michaels return to his home-town after his incarceration; a small town in the Pacific Northwest - when the 'gossipers' begin to tell each other of his story, as they THINK it must have happened. Michael adjusts to his free life in a quiet way [minding his own business], and befriending and doctoring the wounded falcon brings him an inner peace he has been searching for for years. His meeting the neighbour's traumatised and silently introverted young boy who had witnessed the death of his own father, is a saving grace for both man and boy. The boy's mother Susan Baker is struggling with the consequences of the death of her husband in the shooting accident. A story beautifully told and with an obvious e... morending, albeit leaving the reader guessing until the end.
review 2: A magnificent gyrfalcon, soaring in the air over rocky cliffs, is winged by a hunter and falls to earth wounded. Rescued and taken to a nearby farmhouse, the bird will irrevocably change the lives of her savior, Michael Somers, and the woman and child Somers comes to love.After many years Somers has returned to his hometown of Little River Bend hoping to unlock secrets from his past, that in one night of irrational violence -- nearly drove him to destroy his family. Released from treatment but shunned by his neighbors, Somers is determined to heal the bird, which he has named Cully, and release her to freedom. Watching from afar as Somers coaxes the bird to fly is a deeply troubled little boy, Jamie Baker. Jamie has lost the power of speech after witnessing his father's death in a hunting accident, and his mother, Susan, yearns to free her child from his self-made prison. Slowly, a tender emotional bond forms between the desperately lonely child, his mother, and the strange man who seems able to heal. But soon they find themselves in terrible danger as the hunter who tried to kill Cully stalks her again--and plans to wreak vengeance on Somers.This is an extraordinarily moving novel about passion, heartbreak, and the possibility of redemption. less

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