Synopsis
When young Jennifer Darrow leaves her city classroom to teach in a small West Virginia hamlet, she finds more than her place of residence changing. In fact, it seems everyone wants her to become what they think she should be. Beautiful Nola Mae, lover of fine music and literature, scorns Jennifer's lifestyle and "lack of aesthetic appreciation." Corey, Jennifer's college friend, now a minister, sees her as the perfect pastor's wife. And Tikki, the local "wild mountain man," challenges her in a personal vendetta that both frightens and fascinates her. To the very last sentence, Appalachian Spring is filled with drama, suspense, mystery, humor, and romance. The surprising climax of this wonderfully warm story so reminiscent of Christy dramatically reveals what Jennifer has been learning all along: things and people are not always what they seem. Eleanor Gustafson is a "considerer of lilies" who lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts. This is her first novel.
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About the Author
Eleanor K. Gustafson began thinking up stories when she was five or six years old. When she started to read, God grabbed her with--yes--a story that had an invitation at the end, and she was hooked for life. But after reading her early attempts, friends and even her mother told her straight out to stick to music as a career. She pushed manfully along, however, and began publishing both fiction and nonfiction in 1978. A graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, she has been actively involved in church life as a minister's wife, teacher, musician, writer, and encourager. Additional experiences--riding horses, gardening, house construction, tree farming, and parenting--help bring color and humor to her fiction. One of her major writing goals has been to make scriptural principles understandable and relevant for today's readers through the undeniable power of story.
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