Eventually, the Whittakers, parents and son, help Maribeth to cope with her pregnancy and her family's rejection, while she helps them accept the death of their beloved Annie. Meanwhile, Tommy's parents have drifted far apart, but the fear that their son may soon be a father temporarily reunites them. The two lonely adolescents slowly fall in love Tommy offers to marry Maribeth, but she refuses, claiming that they are too young to be parents she plans to give the child up for adoption. Teenager Tommy begins frequenting a diner where he meets 16-year-old waitress Maribeth Robertson, who's pregnant and has been thrown out of her home. But when five-year-old Annie dies of meningitis the day after Christmas, their lives fall apart. It's 1952, and the Whittakers are the perfect happy family. 29.Steel deviates sharply from her usual romance formula in this tender if sometimes sappy story about bad things happening to good people. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. And a stranger arrives - a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. 9780552142458 The Gift 29.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction A magical story told with stunning simplicity and power.Ī happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. A magical story told with stunning simplicity and power.Ī happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose.Ī happy home is shatt. And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house.
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The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. A magical story told with stunning simplicity and power.
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