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Fresh Pick | STAY A LITTLE LONGER by Dorothy Garlock


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Stay A Little Longer

 


May 2010
On Sale: April 30, 2010
Featuring: Louise Watkins
384 pages
ISBN: 044654020X
EAN: 9780446540209
Hardcover
$24.99

Women's Fiction Historical

 

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Stay A Little Longer
by Dorothy Garlock

 

Louise Watkins has her hands full. Her mother had been the town midwife, but after her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in a childbirth ever again.

Since then Louise has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice's six-year old, Charlotte, because the child's father was lost in World War I. But Louise's principal job is running the boardinghouse that is the family's main source of income.

One day, Charlotte befriends a stranger ill with influenza, a man who has taken refuge in an old cabin in the woods nearby. Although badly scarred by wounds suffered in the War, he is strong and slowly recovers. When he gradually takes on odd jobs around the house, Louise accepts his help. She is drawn to him despite his disfigurement, and his voice is comforting, vaguely familiar...

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