Lady of Milkweed Manor -Review

Title: Lady of Milkweed Manor
Publisher: Bethany House
Available @ Amazon.com for $10.07

Giving a child up is one of the hardest choices any parent can make. In our common society of accepting families, less and less unmarried women have too.
The novel 'Lady of Milkweed Manor' takes its reader back to an era in England when there were no assistance programs or kind grandparents willing to take a fatherless child in. Adoptions were all closed and no one spoke any different. If a well to do mother found herself with a stillborn infant, another could be procured from any orphanage and passed off as their own. But just as quickly, that well to do mother could find herself a widow with no means to support her children and parting with them forever as their only chance for survival.
Ms. Julie Klassen has opened a tiny window into the world of Charlotte Lamb, a twenty year old woman of some spiritual standing in her community, who after a moment of misguided love and weakness finds herself on the verge of becoming a social outcast. Not to mention the shadow it would cast over her family should anyone discover her pregnancy.
When her father, a well known vicar sends her to live in a home for unwed mothers, Charlotte is forced to see a side of the world she had never given much thought to. During her time at Milkweed Manor she overcomes hurdles on the way to finding her true place in the world and discovering God’s real promises for her. Many tears are shared with the reader over life choices we all face and light is shed on some we never will.
This author writes with her whole heart and leaves nothing unsaid. I found this book to be a smooth read that is easy to follow and well organized. It reminded me that no matter what obstacles are thrown your way, how you rise is what sets you apart.

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