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     GiftSleuth -  For 82 year old lover of "Thornbirds" notify me whenever anyone posts in this discussionSubscribe  
     
    From: foxcroft  4/28/2009 4:47 pm 
    To: kay8jay unread  (5 of 7) 
     193.5 in reply to 193.4 

    She might like Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes.  It's an older book, won the Pulitzer in 1931, but I really loved it.  It, like the  Thornbirds, follows a young woman as she grows up, focusing on her relationships.  It also follows the changing mores between Victorian times and the 1920s.  Really  a great read - I couldn't put it down.

    Here's a link:

    http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&kn=barnes&sortby=2&tn=years+of+grace&x=0&y=0

     
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    From: BluePalmPointe  4/30/2009 9:24 am 
    To: foxcroft unread  (6 of 7) 
     193.6 in reply to 193.5 

    How about "The Winds of War" by Wouk? It's a sweeping drama, although there might be too many characters for her.

    Also, it's off the beaten path, and not at all similar to the Thornbirds, but have you looked at books by Gladys Taber? I've read most of them and love them and have given a couple to my 74 year old mother who really enjoyed them, especially "Stillmeadow Road". Gladys Taber was an author who lived in the early to middle years of the 20th century and died in the eighties. She wrote a column for one of the major women's magazines - I think it was "Ladies Home Journal" -for many years and then wrote about the old farmhouse in New England that she bought in the forties, refurbished and lived in for many years. Her books are filled with lush descriptions of landscapes, seasons, and the various events that come with living away from a city.

     
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    From: winkleberg  May-8 2:03 pm 
    To: likethepalelily unread  (7 of 7) 
     193.7 in reply to 193.1 
    Paloverde by Jacqueline Briskin might also be a good suggestion.
    Winkleberg
     
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