A good friend introduced me to Charles Todd, a mother and son writing team. They live on the East Coast of the United States. I cannot imagine how difficult a task that might be but they pull it off in the final product. I just finished reading A Test of Wills (published in 1996), which is …
As I write this, it’s November 5, and it’s raining. These two things together make me think of England. I spent ten weeks in Britain in college, on a school literary trip abroad with twenty-odd other students, chaperoned by our literature professor and his wife. The purpose was to put us inside the literature we studied …
“This is my favorite book so far this year. Retired, proper Englishman Harold Fry gets a letter from an old acquaintance saying she has cancer. He struggles to write a reply. Then he struggles to mail his reply, so he just walks across England to hand deliver his letter. While Harold is walking he has …
