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Diligence Bliss (Dilly) finds herself confronted with a friendship she is not sure she is ready to continue. Durand is attentive, attractive and someone she cannot forget. Another Kendal novel that will capture the reader as the life of 52 year old Dilly unfolds.
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Daisy Newman's novels have inspired readers for many years. Her unique manner of bringing plots together using intergenerational characters is exciting and motivating. I Take Thee Serenity, which has been made into a major musical production, is perhaps her best known work. The sequel to this novel, Indian Summer of the Heart, also uses intergenerational themes. Friends United Press has also published A Procession of Friends which portrays the role of Quakers in relationship to many social ills of history.
Her visit to New York was supposed to be a special treat for Dilly. At least her sophisticated New York cousin Elmira planned it that way. But for Dilly, a widow of 52, all the nice parties couldn't make up for the fact that she was homesick for Kendal, Rhode Island, with its Quaker meetings and its community projects. She was almost to go home when she met Durand, a gentle yet persuasive man. He called first on business, but he came back to give Dilly a most important gift-a view of the city through the eyes of an imaginative guide. ' new world opened to Dilly, for Durand's presence lent enchantment to every incident: a rumbling wonderful ride on the Third Avenue El; Roman punch at the 14th Street automat; Central Park Zoo on a frosty December afternoon. Yet the ways of Dilly's former life argued against her continuing her friendship with Durand, and she returned home convinced that she was past the age for romance.She couldn't forget, however, the man who sang her a nursery rhyme, shared penny chocolate bars with her and taught her to feel excitement and the delight which young hearts take in ordinary wonders.
The Autumns Brightness,Daisy Newman,Friends United Press,0944350186,Fiction - Religious,Fiction / Religious,Nature/Ecology,Religious - General,Aged women,Christian,Fiction,New York (N.Y.),Quaker women,Religious
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