The Winter People - by John Ehle (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Recently widowed clockmaker Wayland Jackson, with his daughter Paula, is on his way to Tennessee when their car breaks down in Western North Carolina mountains. They walk, looking for help, when they find Collie Wright, living alone in a cabin with her infant son. What they also find is a new life, but nothing comes without a price.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>It is late autumn when Collie Wright sees a man moving through the woods toward her cabin on the edge of the small mountain community where she lives alone with her baby. She gets out her butcher knife, puts Jonathan down, and waits. To her relief, the man turns out to be only a lost traveler with his young daughter.</p><p>Recently widowed Wayland Jackson, with twelve-year-old daughter Paula, is on his way to Tennessee to practice his profession as a clockmaker. Strong-willed and independent, Collie takes the Jacksons in, steadfastly refusing to identify her baby's father. Wayland's gentleness and humor appeal to her; everything about Collie appeals to him. By mutual consent, he and Paula stay.</p><p>The collusion is acknowledged by Collie's brothers, who take Wayland along on an exhilarating bear hunt, an initiation ceremony of sorts. On his return, Wayland sets up his clock making business, and he and Collie begin to think of marriage.</p><p>But peace and contentment come to an end by the sudden appearance late one night at Collie's cabin of her baby's father, precipitating a violent showdown and the promise of further bloodshed--until Collie makes the most painful decision of her life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A lovely novel . . . about families, about the fragile yet durable ties that we establish among ourselves . . . Ehle's people, all of them, are splendid. Collie, her emotions seesawing as she tries with mounting frustration to keep her life on an even keel, is a person of striking good humor and endearing independence of mind. Wayland, gentle and decent and wry, has a strength that is as quiet as the novel's. Each of Collie's three brothers emerges, quickly yet subtly, as a clearly definable individual and, at the same time, a member of a family that is itself a clearly definable entity . . . his descriptive prose is quite marvelous . . . a very substantial piece of work, thoroughly satisfying in every important respect." --<em>Washington Post</em></p><p>"A spare, funny, harrowing, moving novel drawn with sure, swift strokes." --<em>Newsweek</em></p><p>"A fine book, rich and haunting and a source of great, deep pleasure." --<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><br>
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