Years

by LaVyrle Spencer

Overview

As World War I threatens to take those she holds dear, a lovely schoolteacher grows to womanhood in the arms of a man who'd given up on love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425195789
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/05/2003
Pages:	496
Sales rank:	899,710
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 5.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer and her husband live in a beautiful Victorian house in Minnesota, and the Spencers often escape to their rustic log cabin deep in the Minnesota woods. LaVyrle's hobbies include gardening, travel, gourmet cooking, entertaining, playing bass guitar and the electronic piano, photography, and observing nature.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for the novels of LaVyrle Spencer

“Never fails to please.”—The Anniston Star

“A modern fairy tale.”—People

“A superb story.”—Los Angeles Times

“Spencer is a winner and the reader is no loser.”—San Antonio Express-News

“LaVyrle Spencer’s legions of fans are drawn to her fiction.”—Chicago Tribune

Editorial Reviews

In September 1917, 18-year-old Linnea Brandonberg steps off the train in Alamo, North Dakota, eager to begin her first teaching job. A town girl, she is not prepared for the dour reception of the Westgaard family, with whom she is boarding. But rather than let people and circumstances master her, she singlehandedly changes them, including Theodore Westgaard, a bitter widower of 35 who never thought he would fall in love again. Spencer has done a splendid job here in making this more than a story of two people enamored of each other. She describes the growth of Teddy and Linnea's love with sensitivity and refreshing candor and brings all the residents of Alamo to life in a way that makes the reader care about their satisfactions and heartaches. (March)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Praise for the novels of LaVyrle Spencer

“Never fails to please.”—The Anniston Star

“A modern fairy tale.”—People

“A superb story.”—Los Angeles Times

“Spencer is a winner and the reader is no loser.”—San Antonio Express-News

“LaVyrle Spencer’s legions of fans are drawn to her fiction.”—Chicago Tribune

From the Publisher