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Article: A Fresh Air Cure.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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A Fresh Air Cure
Barb Jensen
1st Books
www.authorhouse.com
ISBN: 1414072465; $16.00 (electronic $4.95) 328 pages
This easy to read romance explores another time and place and family crisis that is neither as familiar nor as threatening as it was a hundred years ago. For that I was happy. I prefer escaping into another world while I read, and this story did that for me. Martha, the heroine, is the essence of the sweet, guileless, dependent matriarch that was typical in the early 1900's society. Almost as soon as the story begins, Martha is diagnosed with tuberculosis and forced to leave her husband and children to go off on ...