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Book Review of Sarah's Window

Sarah's Window
Sarah's Window
Author: Janice Graham
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Sarah Bryden, a talented painter with her deams on hold, spends her days waiting tables at a local cafe and her nights alone in her room, capturing with brush and ink the subtle beauty of prairie wildflowers. She is uncommeonly beautiful, with a fiercely inpendent spirit beneath her quiet manner. When Joh Wilde, a physicist on leave from a california university, moves to the area with his wife, Susan, and their newly adopted sone, he hopes the simpler life and wide open spoaces iwll ease them into their new roles as parents.
Sarah is drawn into their world when she becomes a caretaker for the child, who is difficut and frail, and before long, John finds himself cativated by Sarah's warmeth, her grace and her intuitive gifts. Between Sarah and the child there is an instant and prfound connection a contrast keenly felt by Susan who has grappled with motherhood from the start.