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Ave Maria Mulligan is 35, a spinster and her mother has just died. Ave Maria runs the local drug store along with being in the rescue squad and directing the town play but she still feels unsatisfied. Her mother leaves Ave Maria a note concerning a secret about her birth which helps change her life. I liked the many characters in the town and Ave Maria. There's just something about the writing style that I didn't entirely like. One character constantly refers to her spouse as "my husband" instea
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I had a hard time putting this book down, but in the end I was a bit disappointed. I felt like some of the scenes in the story that I was interested in were rushed through while those that I wasn't interested in were lengthy and slowed the pace of the book. I loved the characters, but I was confused by the motivations of the two love interests. Since the book was told in first person, some of the other characters' actions were not explained to my liking. The characters jumped off the page one mo
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I loved this series (well the first three, I haven't read the 4th one yet) It took me a little bit to get into this one, maybe 50 or 60 pages but then I was hooked. In this one Ave Maria is trying to sort out her love life and learn more about her family. The characters are great and there is a nice mix of funny and sad.
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I liked the setting which was a little coal mining town in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the 70's. It's a light, entertaining story chuck full of oddball characters.
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4.5 stars! I just came to love Big Stone Gap and all the characters, especially Ave Maria. Definitely going to read the rest of the trilogy!
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