A Plain Leaving by Leslie Gould
Have you considered leaving all that you have known your entire life? Leaving your childhood home, your sisters, brothers, mother and father and anyone else who met something to you? If so, meet Jessica Bachmann who, for complicated reason did just that.
Jessica thought all was right with her life until the day she received a phone call from her sister urging to come home, because of their father. When Jessica arrives home she not only learned about her father, but what her brother Arden planned to do with the land. No matter how far she may have moved, the love of the land her and her shared never left.
MY THOUGHTS
Leslie Gould takes you on a wonderful journey through time and writes about dangers of what fracking has on the land. You never know what you might read about in an Amish Novel! Learn more about Jessica and her families' land, as she discovers not everyone shares her and her fathers appreciation for the beauty of the land, but care more about it worth.
It's difficult to express how much I enjoyed the writing style of Leslie. She finds a beautiful way to connect the past and present, while telling a wonderful story. Gould also enlightens the reader on the dangers of fracking. It opens your eyes to how much value the land around us has; more than money, it holds a unique beauty that should appreciated the Gould's characters do.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Some
of my strongest memories from childhood include stories—and how those stories
connected me to my family and friends. As a preschooler, I remember playing Island
of the Blue Dolphin with
my three siblings and the neighbor kids, my father reading A
Street of Flower Boxes to
us before bed, and my mother reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn on long car trips. I also soaked up
Bible stories and accounts of grace and redemption during Sunday school and
Good News Club. Along with my love of stories, my love of writing began in
those early years with my very first written word—S-K-Y.
Even
though I knew I wanted to write fiction by the time I was in the sixth grade,
as I grew older I pursued other things instead, such as majoring in history and
communications, and then working as a museum curator, then a public relations
specialist, and finally as a magazine editor. Once I finally started writing
fiction, it was another ten years until I sold my first novel. By that time I’d
been married for nearly 20 years and had four children of my own to read to.
In
the decade and a half since my first contract I’ve written twenty-five novels,
from Beyond the Blue, a story about international adoption set
in Vietnam, to Courting Cate, a retelling of
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, set in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
to the Cousins of the Dove series, co-authored with Mindy Starns Clark about
the French Huguenots. No matter what I write, I aim to reveal truths about
God’s love, beauty, and redemptive work in our lives. My goal is to connect
more deeply to God, family, long-time friends, and new friends through my
writing. My hope is that my stories encourage readers to deepen their own
connections too.
Awards I’ve received include: the Romantic Times Book Club
Magazine’s Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Inspirational Novel, 2006,
for Beyond the Blue; a Christy Award, 2012, for The Amish Midwife; Inspirational Reader’s Choice Award, 2013, for The Amish Bride; and the Oregon Christian Writer’s Trailblazer Award, 2013.
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