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Book Review of That Camden Summer

That Camden Summer
That Camden Summer
Author: LaVyrle Spencer
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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The year is 1916. The place is a tiny New England village called Camden - where a newly divorced woman learns that love can be more special the second time around . . .

When free thinking divorcee Roberta Jewett returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine she discocvers that small-town folk consider a divorced woman little more than a prostitue. Condemmed by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. Behaving like no "respectable" woman would, she gets a job as a country nurse, learns to drive and buys her very own Model T. Embittered by her painful marriage to an unfaithful husband, she has no intention of being any man's victim again. So when widowed carpenter Gabriel Farley begins work renovating her house, Roberta's first response to him is blatant resentment. But Gabriel's quiet, vibrant masculinity soon finds a way to soothe Roberta's heart.

And in the ultimate test of will and devotion, she must depend on the man she has grown to love and summon the courage to stand up to an entire town.