Hannah has been living in an Englischer town, under the care of her aunt Zabeth who previously left the Old Order Amish community years before. She is working toward a degree in the medical field, something she would not have been allowed to do in her community. Close emotionally to Martin, a man raised by her aunt, she is helping him to raise his niece and nephew.
In the opening chapter, we find Hannah driving into Owl’s Perch in the midst of a funeral service for her good friend Matthew’s brother who tragically died in a shop fire. She is unsure of her reception after fleeing home under cloudy circumstances two years before, ostracized by her community. Her sister Sarah’s strange phone call begging her to come concerns her enough to cause her to make the bold trip.
Cindy Woodsmall’s new novel, When the Soul Mends, details Hannah’s struggles for finding help for her sister’s mental illness that will be allowed by the leaders of the community, acceptance, reconnection, and dealing with her conflicting feelings towards Paul, the young man she had been courting two years before. Woodsmall does a great job intertwining the various family and friend relationships. Envisioning Hannah’s assessments of Old Order Amish and Englischer customs, the reader can empathize with her wavering between the two.
Salvation, forgiveness, concern, understanding, love: all these and more are found in When the Soul Mends.
Published by WaterBrook Press, this is the third novel in the "Sisters of the Quilt" series by Cindy Woodsmall.
If you are interested in a very enjoyable book, I have two copies to give away.
1 comment:
I really like the Amish novels but have never read any thing by Cindy Woodsmall. How does this compare to the other Amish series books?
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