Wkd’s Comments (group member since Jul 20, 2007)

Wkd’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

Never found it.

It would be awesome to find this book.Y oung couple moved because of job loss? back to the husband's area. i suspect he was a semi skilled laborer. i remember the wife spent quite a bit of time on her own.
The author had three names. This was a new book between 1989 & 1999.

Thank you for looking.

Yes, still looking.

Thank you. Still looking for this. Although I have not yet seen it, the series "Outsiders" may be similar i've been told.

I haven't found it yet.

Thanks all!

It was in the new books section of our library - sometime between 1989 & 1999 - I think closer to the beginning of those limits. We moved to Ohio in 1989 so that was the start. The library moved to a new location at the end of 1999. It was a new book & not a reprint.

It was a contemporary novel but I'm not sure I realized it until almost the end - the story was timeless.

I believe the author had 3 names - like Mary Lou Smith .

Thank you for your help. I'm still looking.

Sorry to say that I have no idea what the rest of the book was about. Now that it has been awhile, though, I might have better luck looking at the Pat Conroy book again & seeing if that was the book. Thanks for everyone's help & suggestions.

Still wondering what this book might have been.

Nothing ventured, eh? I think you either love "The Little White Horse" or you don't. It was actually 5th grade & I loved it then but not sure it would survive the test of time.

I tried a variety of tags both on Goodreads & Google.
Good luck! I've been looking for my "lost" book for years.

Here's a great list of books set in Cornwall that I found: http://read-warbler.blogspot.com/2009...

I can also recommend "The Little White Horse" & "Smoky House" by Elizabeth Goudge. I read them in about 6th grade.

Have you read "The China Garden" by Liz Berry?

Darn, I got thrown off by the reference to Cornwall in the last post. I then checked another list & got all excited about "Drift House" by Dale Peck but the date is too late (I'm going to add it to my TBR pile, though).

I bookmarked this list as well: http://www.princetonlibrary.org/teens...

Sorry for the rambling post....

I keep hoping with new people joining that someone will know what this is. I've checked out almost every "tool" that has been suggested.

It seems to me that maybe there was an abandoned house or houses where the couple lived. It was told from the wife's point of view.

I want to say that the path/road back to the houses was either very gravelly or very rocky, but I'm not sure if that is a detail that my mind has added.

Found "The Bushbaby" - it had been a long time since I read it, but after reading the synopsis, agree that "Walkabout" is more likely the book being looked for.

I'm looking for it, but there's another book that might have been called "The Wallaby" that was similar. I'll update as soon as I track it down.

Ok, maybe I wasn't clear on my original post. The book is NOT about a child dying. The section was part of something else, really just a few paragraphs. It may have been "My Reading Life" by Pat Conroy. Unfortunately, the library copy is unavailable and the closest book store is almost 20 miles away.

A big thank you to the posters above.

I wish I could - that would help me narrow it down as well. I've looked over the books I read last year, too - and it still won't come to me. I don't have any of the actual titles on hand, though, just on my virtual shelf.

This is something I read in the past year but try as I might, I can't come up with it. I know it was towards the end of the book and might even be in the after words. The writer was describing the death of a child as causing a hole in the heart and how eventually the heart heals - not closing the hole, but around it. That the death was something never forgotten, but that in time there would be healing.

It meant a lot to me then, and I would like to pass it along to a friend who needs it now.

Thanks, sounds very close but I definitely remember an ATV towards the end of the book. I can remember reading the part and thinking it was kind of strange, but definitely moved the book setting into more current times.

It wasn't "This Holler", darn!

Young COUPLE - unable to find work, move back to where the husband is from (I think). The wife is on her own quite a bit. They have to walk almost everywhere. There are a few other characters. I think there was another couple close to their own age who had a few more "modern" amenities. I also think there might have been an older woman who gave her advice?

I think the author had three names.
Published between 1989 and 1999.

I've used various search engines, lists of books by Southern writers, Algonquin.

Not giving up yet!