At twenty-five years of age, Anna Eicher has never married. When she was seventeen, her parents convinced her to break off her courtship with Freman Whittmore, the youngest son in the Whittmore family and her best friend. Afterward, a distraught Freman moved away from Lancaster County. Eight years
Second chances: an Amish retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion
β Scribed by Austen, Jane;Price, Sarah
- Publisher
- Realms
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 241 KB
- Series
- Amish Classics 3
- Edition
- Large print edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Lancaster County (Pa.), Pennsylvania--Lancaster County.
- ISBN
- 1629982407
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β¦ Synopsis
At twenty-five years of age, Anna Eicher has never married. When she was seventeen, her parents convinced her to break off her courtship with Freman Whittmore, the youngest son in the Whittmore family and her best friend. Afterward, a distraught Freman moved away from Lancaster County.
Eight years later Freman has returned to visit his sister, who is renting the Eichersβ house for the winter. Now the owner of the largest dairy farm in his church district, Freman has neither marriedβnor forgiven Anna.
Although he begins courting someone else, Anna hopes to convince him that she has never stopped loving him. Will Freman be persuaded to forgive Anna and open his heart again?
β¦ Subjects
Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County
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