I enjoyed the subtle growth in her character.
With deft language, Creel sets us in rural America during WWII, and shows us what it was like to be behind the scenes, to farm, to live, to work, to exist, when all the world was focus so far away.Watching Olivia change into who she didn’t know she wanted to be, was magnificent. Her prose is surprisingly descriptive, but without being flowery - somewhat like the desolate beauty Olivia finds in the country. With depth and complexity, Creel tells a story of loneliness, redemption, betrayal, and what makes a heart and home. And, while I enjoyed the happy ending of the movie, the book's ending means more. The book's ending is not pretty and happy, as the movie. The movie, as it turns out, deviates from the book, most noticeably in the ending. I stumbled upon the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie of this book and was smitten with the story. read it and watch the movie too! A real nice heart-warmer.er. And even though Ray has a bald spot he is a good unlikely heartthrob type character i guess. Olivia is a great protagonist, and the characters are likeable, even the ones who turn out to be assholes in the end. She explores the farm's history and makes friends with some Nisei girls who work on the farm and live at a camp (the camp is really lax, they let them go into town and everything).Although Olivia is very uncomfortable at first she grows used to the farm, and being pregnant, and Ray and everyone.
Olivia is very smart and likes history and so she doesn't like being cooped up in a farm the whole day with some guy who only likes to talk about seeds and crap. The protagonist, Olivia, got pregnant and so she won't shame the family, she's put into an arranged marriage with Ray Singleton, a lonely and boring farmer. That's when I found out it was a book and got the book from the library.The story is set during World War II in. Since i'm a sucker for contract/arranged marriage stories, i wanted to watch it again. It was turned into a hallmark movie that they showed on CBS. Oooh Shelby has been reading! This book was really good.
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