Book Description: "There were seconds, when I woke, when the world felt unshrouded. Then memory returned."
When Jessica regains consciousness in a French hospital on the day after the Paris attacks, all she can think of is fleeing the site of the horror she survived. But Patrick, the steadfast friend who hasn’t left her side, urges her to reconsider her decision. Worn down by his insistence, she reluctantly agrees to follow through with the trip they’d planned before the tragedy.
“The pages found you,” Patrick whispered.
“Now you need to figure out what they’re trying to say.”
During a stop at a country flea market, Jessica finds a faded document concealed in an antique. As new friends help her to translate the archaic French, they uncover the story of Adeline Baillard, a young woman who lived centuries before—her faith condemned, her life endangered, her community decimated by the Huguenot persecution.
“I write for our descendants, for those who will not understand the cost of our survival.”
Determined to learn the Baillard family’s fate, Jessica retraces their flight from France to England, spurred on by a need she doesn’t understand.
Could this stranger who lived three hundred years before hold the key to Jessica’s survival?
My Thoughts: Some books leave one speechless . . . this is such a story. Because there are spaces between words...maybe words are not necessary or we are to think, ponder, examine more closely the story that is presented.
This story grabbed me and just wouldn't let go. It was like the unfolding of a slow but determined young plant that longs to grow. As it unfolds in the sunlight it pauses to take gulps of good clean air. Spaces!
Jessica must find answers after the horrific Paris attack. All she longs for is home BUT Patrick, her close friend, encourages her to stay and live, to continue her journey.
A lot of emotion in this read but, yet, the tender spaces of time are given to absorb all that one reads.
The gripping story of Adeline Ballard that Jessica knows/feels is her answer.
What a story! What an ending!
*This book was provided for review by The Fiction Guild*
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (September 5, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0718086449
- ISBN-13: 978-0718086442
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