3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Not Walker's best, 2007-02-01
This is an okay, but not great book, and certainly not Walker's best. It's a sad, slow story about a doctor's wife (Dr. Norton's wife) who is dying of MS (multiple sclerosis.) Because Dr. Norton's wife is for the most part bedridden, she has time - too much time - to think. Mrs. Norton becomes suspicious of her sister, who lives with Dr. Norton and his invalid wife, as well as her husband who is nothing but devoted to her.
If you like sad, slow-moving books, read this. However, I think Walker's Winter Wheat and The Quarry are much, much better books than this one.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Mildred Walker - a great literary find!, 2002-11-17
I love Mildred Walker's writing. This is the fifth book of hers that I have read and it did not disappoint. She has such a way of bringing the reader into the minds and thoughts of the book's characters. Sometimes it is more what the characters do not say than what they do say that propels the story forward.This book is about a perfect couple, Dr. Norton and his wife Sue. They have a rock solid marriage and then comes a devastating illness that strikes Sue. That changes everything, or does it? The story unfolds with the relationships between Dr. & Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Norton's sister Jean and all the med students and their wives. Not a lot of action, but I couldn't put it down, as the relationship stories unfolded.
Please give Mildred Walker a chance - she is a brilliant writer. My favorite book she has written is Winter Wheat, but I have loved all of her work that I have read so far.