...a narrative of New England family life through generations,unfaltering in its grasp, it is also a superb portrait of a woman both blessed and cursed by an uncompromising personal integrity.
The family are the pioneering Randalls, and the woman is Abby Randall Plumner. In Abby all the stern virtues of her ancestry are crystallized; yet she must apply them to times gone awry, for her mature life embraces both the temptations of the Prohibition era and the moral and physical stress of the Great Depression.
...a narrative of New England family life through generations,unfaltering in its grasp, it is also a superb portrait of a woman both blessed and cursed by an uncompromising personal integrity.
The family are the pioneering Randalls, and the woman is Abby Randall Plumner. In Abby all the stern virtues of her ancestry are crystallized; yet she must apply them to times gone awry, for her mature life embraces both the temptations of the Prohibition era and the moral and physical stress of the Great Depression.