This is a long, generational book that has a part 2. It follows the story of Marta, a Swiss teen who longs to finish school and become someone someday. However, she has a cruel father, an ill mother, and can do little to change her fate. But change it, she does. The reader will follow Marta through all her travails. Francine Rivers is a good writer, but some parts of this book is just "told" in order to advance the timeline or the book would be even longer.
The real conflict will be the relationship of Marta to her daughter Hildie. It really brings out the baggage that Marta carries from her past that affects their relationship. Hildie knows nothing about her mother's past. Each character only relates based on what they know so that is how they make their decisions. Only the reader knows the entire history and keeps hoping for that breakthrough.
Maybe in the next book. Her Daughter's Dream.
This book is still Christian fiction, but is not as slathered with it as some of her previous books.
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