It's always a blast to discover a terrific novel before anyone else. It's like finding a treasure. I guess I'm a treasure hunter at heart, because finding a good read is what keeps me going. You know how darn persnickety I can be about books.
Some Glad Morning is the best novel I've read in a very long time. It left me glowing inside. It's the story of a young man struggling against soul-crushing odds to find his love, but it's more than a love story. It's heartbreaking and heartwarming and soul inspiring all rolled up together. It is one of the few books I've read in my lifetime that touched me deeply and changed how I look at relationships.
Some Glad Morning is rich with wonderful and sometimes quirky characters. It's like stepping into another world that is both magical and familiar too. This is a story well told that you will want to tell others about. This is one novel you can brag about reading before the world discovered it.
The hero is Ransom MacTavish, a poor farm boy from South Carolina, who joins the Army to earn cash for his destitute family. It's the spring of 1918 and Ransom is quickly sent to France to fight in World War I. An assault across no man's land goes horribly wrong and Ransom is trapped in a shell hole with a dying officer.
The young officer has in his pocket the love letters from his fiancee, a Charleston lady named Elizabeth. As a dying wish, the officer asks Ransom to read to him the letters. In a heartbreaking scene I will never forget, Ransom reads to the young man as he dies. Later, as Ransom lies wounded for days in that shell hole, he finds solace in Elizabeth's letters and falls in love.
After the war, Ransom pursues Elizabeth in spite of the fact that he is penniless and she is a Charleston aristocrat. The situation is hopeless as Ransom faces a wealthy and unscrupulous competing suitor, pig-headed racism, destitution and unforgiving stupidity.
But Ransom endures and with the help of a crotchety hermit and the steadfast courage of a young pregnant woman on the run, Ransom is made stronger by his trials. He comes to understand his heart and finds the courage to love deeply.
Like so much of Some Glad Morning, the ending resonates with such depth you will not easily forget it. When you read Some Glad Morning, you'll think to yourself time after time, 'This would make a wonderful film.' I have no doubt it will be made into a movie. It's already been made into an audio book.
Some Glad Morning is the best novel I've read in a very long time. It left me glowing inside. It's the story of a young man struggling against soul-crushing odds to find his love, but it's more than a love story. It's heartbreaking and heartwarming and soul inspiring all rolled up together. It is one of the few books I've read in my lifetime that touched me deeply and changed how I look at relationships.
Some Glad Morning is rich with wonderful and sometimes quirky characters. It's like stepping into another world that is both magical and familiar too. This is a story well told that you will want to tell others about. This is one novel you can brag about reading before the world discovered it.
The hero is Ransom MacTavish, a poor farm boy from South Carolina, who joins the Army to earn cash for his destitute family. It's the spring of 1918 and Ransom is quickly sent to France to fight in World War I. An assault across no man's land goes horribly wrong and Ransom is trapped in a shell hole with a dying officer.
The young officer has in his pocket the love letters from his fiancee, a Charleston lady named Elizabeth. As a dying wish, the officer asks Ransom to read to him the letters. In a heartbreaking scene I will never forget, Ransom reads to the young man as he dies. Later, as Ransom lies wounded for days in that shell hole, he finds solace in Elizabeth's letters and falls in love.
After the war, Ransom pursues Elizabeth in spite of the fact that he is penniless and she is a Charleston aristocrat. The situation is hopeless as Ransom faces a wealthy and unscrupulous competing suitor, pig-headed racism, destitution and unforgiving stupidity.
But Ransom endures and with the help of a crotchety hermit and the steadfast courage of a young pregnant woman on the run, Ransom is made stronger by his trials. He comes to understand his heart and finds the courage to love deeply.
Like so much of Some Glad Morning, the ending resonates with such depth you will not easily forget it. When you read Some Glad Morning, you'll think to yourself time after time, 'This would make a wonderful film.' I have no doubt it will be made into a movie. It's already been made into an audio book.
About the Author:
I enjoyed reading Some Glad Morning so much, I later listened to the audio book while flying from Atlanta to San Diego. Some Glad Morning is available through Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition. If you would prefer to listen to the audio book, you can get heret: Some Glad Morning Audio Book.
