On Sparrow Hill
By Maureen Lang
Tyndale
© 2008 by Maureen Lang
Rebecca Seabrooke is committed to her work as the curator for the
Hollingsworth Estate, an important British family. Secretly, Rebecca has had
a crush on Quentin Hollingsworth since childhood. Now he seems
interested in her. Could there possibly be a future for them? Of course, the
times are different, but could nobility and the servant class become an item
without stirring idle gossip? And what of Quentin’s thoroughbred mother?
Respected for her family’s long history of service to the Hollingsworth,
could Rebecca find acceptance as an equal?
When 150-year old letters, written by Berrie Hamilton, one of Quentin’s
ancestors, are fount in a vault, Rebecca is reminded that hurdles can be
jumped with God’s help and wisdom.
Maureen Lang, in this sequel to The Oak Leaves, has once again weaved
engaging parallel stories: that of Berrie Hamilton’s quest to help a young
mentally impaired girl find meaning within her disability, and that of Rebecca
Seabrooke’s struggle against conventionality.
Berrie writes her sister-in-law Cosima regarding the hardships she faces as
she works to establish an Irish school for the mentally challenged. She
fights against an uncaring system and is unwittingly pitted against the
brother of one of her students, an Irish Lord. She dislikes her attraction to
him. And he reminds her of his distrust of the English.
When Quentin’s English cousins visit, Rebecca is reminded of the struggle
Cosima endured regarding her fears of the family curse, the fear of bearing
a mentally disabled child. And indeed, in later years, the ancestral gene
would carry the Fragile X-Syndrome, a theme prominent in Lang’s first book,
The Oak Leaves, and a reoccurring subplot in this book.
A good read from start to finish.
Review by
Linda Rondeau
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