This is the first book I have read by Mary Ellen Taylor, I chose it as my Prime First Reads selection in August. I loved this book, read in one afternoon. Her prose is lovely and the story is told in a dual time line , which I enjoy. Some parts are predictable, if only because of the social mores of that period. I identified with the pregnancy losses by two of the characters, and could easily sympathize with the various female characters--past and present. A moving read.