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Forgoing her dreams of marrying for love, Abigail of Carmel must wed Nabal the Fool in order to save her family from financial ruin and is exiled to the countryside, where she becomes enamored with the land and the people, until war threatens her new sense of peace. Original.
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*Starred Review* Abigail has a brief starring role in the Old Testament as the shrewd intercessor for peace between David and Abigail's miserly husband, Nabal. Conveniently, Nabal drops dead, and David takes Abigail for his wife. We don't know much about Abigail's reaction when Bathsheba started taking baths on rooftops. But Burton fills in the gaps of Abigail's childhood, portraying her as a clever, modest young woman who was raised in poverty and forced to marry the repulsive Nabal because of her brother's gambling debts. She's likable and believable, and Burton brings the ancient setting to life at least as well as Anita Diamant in The Red Tent (1997), though without Diamant's sensuality and fierce feminism. This is the first in a series on biblical women. John Mort
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