Tattler's Branch

Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: Lilly Corbett Still has grown to love her life as the small-town doctor of Skip Rock, a tiny coal community in the Kentucky mountains. Though her husband, Tern, is away for a few months at a mining job, Lilly has her hands full with her patients and her younger sister visiting for the summer. Lilly turns to her good friend and neighbor, Armina, to help keep things in order�??until a mysterious chain of events leaves Armina bedridden and an abandoned baby on her doorstep. Lilly works to uncover the truth, unaware of what a mess she's found herself in until a break-in at her clinic puts her on high alert. As she struggles between what is right and what is safe, Lilly must discover the strength of her resilient country neighbors, her God, and herself.… (more)

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LibraryThing member sparkleandchico

I received this book free as it was damaged. It is a simple story about a female doctor living and working in a small village in the early 1900's. I read at the end of the book that there was a prequel, it would have been better for this to have been made clear either on the cover or at the front

of the book. I would have liked to read them in order. This book did stand alone but it would have been easier to understand and relate to the characters if I had read the prequel "Skip Rock Shallows."

The story was readable but there wasn't enough excitement for me. It was quite slow in places and I was tempted to give up. However, I did read until the end and by this point the characters had grown on me. I don't think I would bother to buy a sequel but I might read it if it was free!

This is advertised as Christian Historical Fiction. There are a few references to God and some hazy Bible verses but the story is not about faith and doesn't have this as an underlying theme. I would describe it more as a "moral" story with good principles, than "Christian." The book is clean, free of bad language, graphic violence and sexual content. There is a murder but it is not described in graphic detail. I would recommend for any readers.

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