![]() ![]() Will Parker, foundling, drifter, and ex-con, has never had a family of his own. ![]() The story unfolds gradually and gives us plenty of time get to know the characters and their stories. When Will sees Ellie’s advertisement for a husband in the town newspaper, he walks out to her farm and two plain, ordinary, lonely people meet and find love. Will Parker is an ex-convict who has just been fired from his first job since he left prison. Ellie Dinsmore is a widow, pregnant, with two small boys, living on a ramshackle farm. Morning Glory takes place in Whitney, Georgia just before the United States’ entry into World War II. LaVyrle Spencer accomplishes this in the book that I think is her masterpiece – Morning Glory. ![]() ![]() It takes a writer of talent to make the lives of plain, ordinary people not only interesting but memorable. After all, if we read nothing but books about people like ourselves, it would be very boring. There’s nothing wrong with that, we all like a little wish fulfillment and fantasy in our reading. Lords, ladies, knights, cowboys, and swashbuckling types in general. So often heroes and heroines of romances are larger-than-life characters. ![]()
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