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    Rainbow Hill
    Rainbow Hill
    Rainbow Hill
    Ebook312 pages3 hours

    Rainbow Hill

    By Thelma Gooch and Josephine Lawrence

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2005
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    • 4/5
      This is the sequel to my childhood favorite Rosemary, and I'm very happy to report that it did not disappoint, that the characters of Rosemary, her younger sisters Sarah and Shirley, and big brother Dr. Hugh Willis all stood up to the passage of time (mine, not theirs...this story picks up very shortly after we left them all at the end of Rosemary), and that it wasn't just the favored place in my heart that made re-reading the original a satisfying experience over the years. The Willis family is fatherless; we are never told why. In Rosemary, they are motherless too, for the most part, as Mrs. Willis is away "resting" at a sanatorium for the entirety of that book. She has come home in the second installment, but the whole family will be spending the summer at a rented farm while renovations are made to their home in town to accommodate new office space for Dr. Hugh. Out in the country the girls meet many orphans: two boys from the agricultural college who are working under the farm manager for the summer, and a family of children, the oldest a fifteen year old boy and the youngest an infant, trying to run a farm and keep off the town's radar so they won't be separated and sent into care. There's an innocence to these stories, but underneath some fairly serious themes are explored, and so well handled that the reader never feels mugged by the "moral". Above all, Josephine Lawrence can make you love and believe in her characters in much the way Louisa May Alcott could do, with less saccharine and almost no pathos.

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