Beverly Lewis has been writing about Amish life for years. This latest book, The Photograph, tells of life as a Pennsylvania Dutch resident without parents.
This is a particularly quick read, and I ran through it in almost no time during my lunch breaks (cuz that’s how I roll). Fans of women’s fiction, christian fiction, and romance novels will especially like this book.
A family of 3 sisters are living on a farm together, their way of life threatened by their older brother who will take over the property since their parents are gone. The youngest runs away to be an “outsider” with her english boyfriend. The middle sister buries herself in her work as a confectioner. The older continues to take care of the house. A handsome stranger comes to town with a photograph, looking for the girl who has won his heart.
Overall, I really enjoyed this read as it is not particularly difficult and the story moves quickly. Learning about a simpler way of life is calming and nice.
The Photograph is available on AMAZON in both regular and ebook formats. Also available on Google Play.
Release date: September 8
Press Summary:
Eva Esch and her sisters are in a predicament. With the passing of their widowed mother, Eva’s older brother Menno plans to move his growing family into the Eden Valley farmhouse where they all grew up, leaving little room for his three single sisters. Surely, Menno reasons, at least one of them will marry this coming wedding season. Eva does hope to marry, but she isn’t sure she wants to give up her sweet shop for the life of a farmer’s wife, and she has no other prospects.
When younger sister, Lily, disappears in the night, leaving only a brief note, Eva fears she has been wooed away from the People by an outsider. And when Jed Stutzman, a young Amish buggy maker from Ohio, shows up in Lancaster with a photo of a Plain young woman, Eva’s world begins to tilt. She feels powerfully drawn to the quietly charming stranger–but the woman in the forbidden photograph is no stranger at all. . . .
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