The Ponder Legacy - Softcover

Robert O. Barclay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931646724 ISBN 13: 9781931646727

Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press, 2003

Synopsis

"For as far back as memory could take them they had been friends and companions together every day as if joined at the hip. She could remember the day he had tied her to a tree behind the tool shed. She was five and he was six. A wooden hatchet and a feathered headdress had turned him into an Indian and she was his hostage. But when she started to cry he kissed her on the cheek and let her go. On her eighth birthday he'd hugged her then touched his puckered lips to hers and ran away."--The Ponder Legacy
Marianne has lived in the same house in the same town on the same street for all her life. Matthew has been her neighbor and best friend and she's been in love with him since she was eight or at least that's as far back as she can remember; and he has loved her for just as long. The problem is that he doesn't know it--doesn't know that he loves Marianne. Today all that is about to change.
Marianne has grown tired of waiting and announces that she intends to sell her parents' home, the place where her family has lived for three generations, and move to another city. Matthew is dumbfounded, stunned, and what follows is quiet pandemonium.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Barclay is a native of New England. His first two novels, A Gift Once Given and Safe Harbor, are set in a fictional community that has been modeled after the little coastal town where he grew up - Scituate, Massachusetts. He moved to St. Paul in the spring of 1990 and lives with his wife and family in a restored Victorian in the Summit University neighborhood. He has had eight biological children (his daughter April died in a pedestrian accident in the summer of 1986) and he and his wife have since adopted five special needs children. Mr. Barclay's latest novel is set in Chatfield, Minnesota. This time, on the advice of his editor, he decided to use a real community with real names and places.
Mr. Barclay has offered his services as a speaker to writer's groups, book clubs and at schools and libraries. He has conducted workshops on publishing and has also done some editing for local authors, and written some reviews for the Midwest Book Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1931646724
• ISBN 13: 9781931646727
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232