A Gathering Light

Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly

Young Adult

When hotel waitress Mattie is given letters by a woman who is later found drowned in the nearby lake, she is forced to reconsider her future in the small rural community in which she has always lived. Will she leave her careworn, widowed father and younger brothers and sisters? Will she be happy marrying the son of their farmer neighbours or does he have a hidden agenda? Or will she follow her teacher and mentor, the "notorious" Ms Wilcox, and seek a college education and independence in turn-of-the-20th-century America? Donnelly has based her first novel on a true murder mystery, but has incorporated many social injustices, such as women's rights and racism, into an outstanding and wonderfully satisfying story of a young woman's coming of age. The uncovering of secrets in her narrow-minded community, plus the terrible truth in the letters she had promised to destroy, give Mattie the courage to decide whether justice should be done, and the pluck to follow her head and not her heart. A romantic, epic saga, that will appeal to 13+ year olds.

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Jennifer Donnelly lives in Brooklyn, New York. This is her first novel and marks the beginning of an incredibly assured and confident literary voice.

General Fields

  • : 9780747570639
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.323
  • : January 2004
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jennifer Donnelly
  • : Paperback
  • : 400