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Historical romance set in the 1930s.
Author Notes
Dorothy Garlock is a Texas native living in Clear Lake, Iowa, who quit her job as a newspaper columnist and reporter at the age of 49 to write novels. She entered her first novel in a contest and lost, but she sold the book. Now, over twenty years later, she has millions of copies in print and has had her work translated into 18 languages.
So many of her more than 40 books are set in the Old West that Dorothy Garlock has come to be classified as a Western Romance writer. She is a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame. Popular titles include Almost Eden, The Listening Sky, and Larkspur. With Hope is a gritty, unsentimental romance set in the Great Depression.
Dorothy Garlock also writes under the names Dorothy Glenn, Dorothy Philips and Johanna Phillips.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The bestselling author of Sweetwater and more than 20 other novels tackles Depression-era Oklahoma with wit, freshness and memorable characterization. In 1932, after Henry Ann Henry's father dies, she's left with a farm to run and two disreputable half-siblings to civilize. Soon the young woman's brood grows to include her African American foster mother, a vagrant with a secret past, and the young son of a handsome neighbor whose wife is going mad. There are plenty of troubles to contend with, not the least of which are the wagging tongues of the town gossips. An old-fashioned storyteller, Garlock creates people and places with a tart honesty reminiscent of a more adult version of the "Anne of Green Gables" series. Although the black dialect may grate on modern ears, it still has the ring of authenticity. The book is billed as a historical romance but should have wider appeal. National print advertising. (Sept.) FYI: This is the first of three books by Garlock set in the 1930s; the next, With Song, will be published in spring 1999. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Henry Ann, a resourceful, independent, compassionate, and rather prim spinster, surrounds herself with a group of people that sets the gossiping tongues of her Depression-era town wagging. Not only has she taken in her younger half siblings, who, unlike her, were raised by their whore of a mother, but she has also added to her family the abused baby son of her attractive married neighbor Tom Dolan, the black woman who helped raise her, and a bum from the road who proves to be an exceptional man. Of strong moral fiber, Henry Ann is dismayed to find herself yearning for Tom, whose wife becomes more dangerous and deranged every day. Further conflict is added when her younger sister, taking after the ways of their mother, runs away to live with the notorious and trashy Perry clan. The well-drawn 1930s rural Oklahoma setting contributes to the believability of this satisfyingly warm romance. Readers who enjoyed LaVyrle Spencer's Morning Glory (1990) should find this particularly enticing. --Diana Tixier Herald
Library Journal Review
Straying from her more typical late-19th-century time period, Garlock skirts the edges of the contemporary subgenre and launches a promising trilogy of novels set during the Great Depression. Seldom used in romance novels, this difficult, dynamic time comes alive in Garlock's hands as she pens a gritty story about a kind, determined young woman struggling both to attend to her farm and step-siblings and to help her neighbors during the Oklahoma dust bowl days. Garlock's realistic but not always likable characters drive the plot of this vividly depicted romance that calmly and powerfully deals with deception, infidelity, child abuse, and insanity and provides a warm and satisfying love story in the process. Garlock (Sweetwater, Warner, 1998) is a popular writer of earthy, unsentimental Americana-type romances and lives in Clear Lake, IA. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
