I have been blown away by Lucy Strange. Our Castle by the Sea is her second novel and all I can think about after I've set this book down is that I hope she writes forever. I want to read everything she writes and I'm 26. How lucky the newer generations are to have an author like her! Our Castle by the Sea , like Lucy Strange's first novel The Secret of Nightingale Wood , is again listed as juvenile fiction for 8-12 year-olds, but again like the first novel, I think any one older than that would find enjoyment in reading and learning what war is like from an 11 year-old girl's perspective. Autumn 1939 -- "On the very first day of the war, Mags came home with a split lip."And after this, everything in Pet's life changes. WWII has barely started, but the people of Stonegate feel it. Anyone of German decent is arrested, including Pet's mom, and Pet can't imagine that anything could get worse, but it does. Growing up in a lighthouse,
About 10 years ago I
heard Robert Morgan speak about his book The Red Sea Rules at a Thomas
Nelson sales conference. (Thomas Nelson is the publisher.) I knew I'd be
selling the book to bookstores but his message cut right through the
sales pitches and all that sort of thing. I knew I needed to read it.
I had been going through big transitions and was looking for biblical
perspective. I found it in The Red Sea Rules. This powerful little book is filled with God's perspective that I think might apply to
everyone. I picked it up again and have been re-reading it. Yup.
Still a great book. If your view into the future looks uncertain or if
your present circumstances don't match your expectations, I'd recommend
you give this book a read. I think and hope you'll be glad you did.
Let me know what you think of it. Gary
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