PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Ann Weisgarber was born and raised in Kettering, Ohio. She has lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and Des Moines, Iowa, but now splits her time between Sugar Land, Texas, and Galveston, Texas. Her first novel The Personal History of Rachel Dupree was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. Her follow-up book, The Promise, was a finalist in the Western Writers of America Best Historical Fiction Awards. The Glovemaker is her third novel.
The Glovemaker is another triumph from one of our country's finest historical novelists. Once again Ann Weisgarber gives us a spellbinding, multi-layered heroine whose survival is jeopardized by the harshness of the land and the man she loves. A tale of moral complexity as compelling and suspenseful as the great American classic, The Ox-Box Incident, The Glovemaker deftly explores a woman, alone with her conscience and the devastating consequences of serving community over self, finding the strength to choose right over righteousness. -- Sarah Bird, author of <i>Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen</i> Vintage historical fiction -- <i>Independent</i> on <i>The Promise</i> Like a John Ford movie with the sweep of history and landscape. It's spectacular! -- Oscar winning actress, Viola Davis, on <i>The Personal History of Rachel DuPree</i> Vintage Americana, as chilling as Cold Mountain -- <i>Red</i> on <i>The Personal History of Rachel DuPree</i> A compelling story balanced on the knife edge between religion and ethics, crime and sin, compassion and fear. - -- Mary Doria Russell, author of <i>Doc</i> and <i>Epitath</i> The Glovemaker, Ann Weisgarber's engrossing, troubling, honest-to-goodness third novel, is as stark and touching as the lives described, as tense and testing as the Utah backlands where it's set, as fine as any fiction you will read this year. -- Jim Crace, author of <i>Harvest </i>and <i>The Melody</i>
