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Book Review of The Diary of Mattie Spenser

The Diary of Mattie Spenser
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No one is more surprised than Mattie Spencer herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. Mattie's only compay is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make a life together on the hars and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he left behind and finds love where she least expects it.