Helpful Score: 4
This is the fourth book in the series, though each book is self-contained,about the Bonner family in the nineteenth century settling of upper NY state. I hope there are many others to follow.
Helpful Score: 3
An excellent book. Nice sustantial story, it follows the bonner family which are in donati's previous books. This can be read and well enjoyed even if you haven't read the previous books!
Helpful Score: 3
In the sultry summer of 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner welcome Nathaniel's half-Indian daughter, Hannah, back into the family fold. But Hannah, a healer trained in both Western and native traditions, comes home to Paradise, New York, near broken in the wake of a haunting tragedy. Hannah soon finds that even in Paradise she can't hide from the newest war between England and the young United States. Her brother Daniel enlists...and is captured. Now it is up to Hannah and her cousin Jennet to pull off a daring act of rescue and sacrifice that will plunge these caourageous Bonner women into the greatest danger of all...
Helpful Score: 2
last book of a series, so far. . . search for the others also: Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore, Lake in teh Clouds. If you liked Gabaldon, you'll like Donati.
Helpful Score: 1
At least I wont have to wait long for the next one, fall 2006.
This was good and as usual well written, deep descriptions, full emotions. Just took a bit before I remembered who was who. Maybe I will do a reread!
This was good and as usual well written, deep descriptions, full emotions. Just took a bit before I remembered who was who. Maybe I will do a reread!
Helpful Score: 1
Best Series I've read. Sorry to see the author will end the series this year 2009.
Continuation of the Bonner Family Saga series. This is the 4th book in the series.
From the back cover of the book
"In a magnificent new novel, award winner Sara Donati returns to turbulent early-nineteenth-century America and her bestselling Bonner Family Saga. Three generations of Bonner women will face theri most daunting challenges as they search for love and happiness...no matter where it takes them...2
"In the sultry summer of 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner welcome Nathaniel's half-Indian daughter, Hannah, back into the family fold. But Hannah, a healer trained in both Western and native traditions, comes home to Paradise, New York, near broken in the wake of a haunting tragedy. Hannah soon finds that even in Paradise she can't hide from the newest war between England and the young United State. Her bother Daniel enlists... and is captured. Now it is up to Hannah and her cousin Jennet to pull off a daring act of resuce and sacrifice that will plunge these courageous Bonner women into the greatest danger of all.."
This saga first caught my eye with the first book "Into the Wilderness" and as I read I was reunited with some old friends from the classic novel "The Last of the Mohicans", Hawkeye, and Chingachgook. I was enchanted from then on, and enjoyed reading the continuing story and knowing that Hawkeye and his family live in even if just in this saga. If you loved the novel by James Fenimore Cooper so will love Sara Donati's saga of the Bonner family... It is a must read...
From the back cover of the book
"In a magnificent new novel, award winner Sara Donati returns to turbulent early-nineteenth-century America and her bestselling Bonner Family Saga. Three generations of Bonner women will face theri most daunting challenges as they search for love and happiness...no matter where it takes them...2
"In the sultry summer of 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner welcome Nathaniel's half-Indian daughter, Hannah, back into the family fold. But Hannah, a healer trained in both Western and native traditions, comes home to Paradise, New York, near broken in the wake of a haunting tragedy. Hannah soon finds that even in Paradise she can't hide from the newest war between England and the young United State. Her bother Daniel enlists... and is captured. Now it is up to Hannah and her cousin Jennet to pull off a daring act of resuce and sacrifice that will plunge these courageous Bonner women into the greatest danger of all.."
This saga first caught my eye with the first book "Into the Wilderness" and as I read I was reunited with some old friends from the classic novel "The Last of the Mohicans", Hawkeye, and Chingachgook. I was enchanted from then on, and enjoyed reading the continuing story and knowing that Hawkeye and his family live in even if just in this saga. If you loved the novel by James Fenimore Cooper so will love Sara Donati's saga of the Bonner family... It is a must read...
The most recent (4th)novel of the Bonner family. It takes place during the summer of 1812. Strong women characters in this historical fiction.
