Focuses on the Williamsburg inhabitants whose lives are caught up in the tumult, intrigue, and violence of the Revolutionary War. Elswyth Thane has a faculty for bringing other times and other places to life, and her picture of Williamsburg, when the unrest leading to the Revolution was under way, is no exception. An English youth, newly orphaned, is taken into the friendship of the town's leaders, given a helping hand and a job to his liking. He has met and loved the girl his closest friend loves -- and attempts to ...
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Focuses on the Williamsburg inhabitants whose lives are caught up in the tumult, intrigue, and violence of the Revolutionary War. Elswyth Thane has a faculty for bringing other times and other places to life, and her picture of Williamsburg, when the unrest leading to the Revolution was under way, is no exception. An English youth, newly orphaned, is taken into the friendship of the town's leaders, given a helping hand and a job to his liking. He has met and loved the girl his closest friend loves -- and attempts to stay loyally away from her; he scarcely thinks of a lovely available girl, who can see him; and he befriends a ten-year-old twin girl, who, with her brother, becomes his shadow, at school or in free hours. There's a good picture of the fast-thickening war clouds -- and eventually Julian realizes that his roots have gone deep, his loyalty is to the colonies, and he enlists. Sprague finds that his lady love is true to him, and Julian discovers that Tibby, his child playmate, has grown up over night, and holds his heart in her hands. Even the lovely Regina finds compensation for Julian's defection. All's well that ends well.
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I love this book more than almost any other. It's an exciting and accurate historical novel, it's beautifully romantic, and it's just so NICE, which is to say nearly everyone in it is nice and when they aren't they mostly get their just desserts! It's also the first, and best of the Williamsburg novels, which are all definitely worth reading, especially Ever After, which is almost exactly as wonderful as Dawn's Early Light, and I'm never quite sure which is better, although I think it's Dawn's Early Light (and the one between them, Yankee Stranger, is also wonderful, although the people aren't quite as lovely). It's about the American Revolution, and whether you know anything about the American Revolution or not, you won't be bored or offended by inaccurate details. Specifically, it's about a young Englishman who goes to Virginia and finds himself in the middle of the Revolution. Frankly, unless you hate historical novels, books about good people mostly being rewarded for their virtues (but not always, which I guess is realism, but it usually makes me cry), or nice love stories (because it's a love story, but not the kind of novel where people go around swooning, making endless flowery declarations of love, or having sex in the back bedrooms--come on, this is eighteenth century Virginia!), you should read this book. It's beautifully written, and it's a beautiful story, and you will learn so much, and probably acquire an addiction to the Williamsburg Novels, which, if you like this book, you should read all of once (all the novels), and then you'll probably be happy to never read the last four or so again, but you won't regret reading them once (by the way, regarding non-Williamsburg books, Tryst, by the same author, is also a lovely book, and so is The Lost General; her others aren't so great, but are still worthwhile).
