Margaret's Peace

by Linda Hall

Multnomah; 1998

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I'm glad a friend introduced me to Linda Hall's books. I like that she's Canadian, and includes Canada in many of her books. It makes me feel at home. I also appreciate her realistic approach to faith in her novels. In Margaret's Peace, no one has the picture-perfect, raised in church, story-book response to tragedy. Margaret has abandoned the church of her husband after the loss of their eight-year-old daughter. She returns to her childhood home to discover rumors of ghosts and a lukewarm welcome from her relatives. She begins to question the "accidental" death of her older sister twenty-five years earlier, and it has a domino effect on everyone around her. Margaret has to discern whom to trust and how to react. Will she let the pain in her past destroy any hope for future joy, or will she allow healing to come?

Again, Linda Hall deals with tough issues without patronizing, and it's a great novel you won't want to put down.

by Cindy

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