Maggie's Hope

By Agnes Abrahamson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0533136091
• ISBN13: 9780533136094
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Vantage Pr
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Maggie's Hope Book Review

Maggie's Hope is a great summer read, specially on the beach! Reading about these robust, hearty women dealing with and overcoming hardships that we can relate to even in modern times, has given me hope that life today ain't all that bad considering the 'good old days'. There are some good characters I loved to hate but I won't say more... Too bad it isn't a paperback, but it's still worth the money.

Maggie's Hope

The story, Maggie's Hope, is an inspiring tale of one widowed mother's life and that of the Nova Scotia village she lives in back in the 1920s. She suffers heart aches that any mother can relate deeply to and in her decision making you can always empathize with her struggles to act with strong morality in the face of easier and less demanding courses of action. As most good mothers do, she places her childrens' needs ahead of her own desires but never loses track of who she is and what she ultimately aspires to. I cried with Maggie, was righteously angry with her, and worried along with her childrens'and friends' misfortunes. The action and multiple romances of Mrs. Abrahamson's novel kept me turning pages rapidly because she fleshed out the characters so well that I deeply cared to know each event's conclusion. With class and authenticity, the characters tumble through coal miner strikes, rum running secret rendavous, twilight romance meetings, deaths, alcohlic and physically abusive family lives, sexually pervse attractions, snobbery, and surprise fortunes. Make sure you have the time to read this book BEFORE you pick it up otherwise, you'll read it late into the night and ... and we mothers need all the sleep we can get!