Morning glory spencer5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates. The clearly drawn characters fulfill their imperativesincluding Will, who becomes a war heroand all is neatly and pleasingly resolved. Eleanor Dinsmore is a pregnant widow with two toddlers and a farm full of junk. Will Parker is an ex-con looking for a job and home in Georgia when he sees an advertisement from a woman looking for a husband. Alas, brazen and rapacious Lula Peak, the town floozie, sets her sights on Will, waylaying him in the library meantimes, Lula is blackmailing her lover, the cowardly Harley Overmire, who is no friend of Will. Morning Glory is a historical romance that takes place in Georgia just as WWII breaks out. Fittingly for this sort of bucolic idyll, Will and Ellie, despite their rudimentary educations, love books and develop a special friendship with wise old Miss Beasley, the local librarian. Will Parker is an ex-con looking for a job and home in Georgia when. Soon in love with ostensibly plain, bedraggled Ellie, Parker dotes on her two boys, and works to support the family. Morning Glory is a historical romance that takes place in Georgia just as WWII breaks out. In the small town of Whitney, Ga., at the beginning of WW II, he answers the advertisement of a pregnant widow and mother of two, the abused and reclusive Eleanor Dinsmore, who is looking for a husband. ![]() Tall, dark and handsome Will Parker has served time for the killing of a Texas prostitute, but keeps losing jobs as his reputation becomes known. Fans of Spencer's bestselling paperback historical novels ( Vows The Gamble ) will be pleased by her hardcover debut, again demonstrating her gift for telling a satisfyingly conventional romantic tale in fresh, sprightly prose. ![]()
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