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The Orchard: A Memoir
by Adele Crockett Robertson

I picked up The Orchard a couple years ago, solely on the basis of the gushing reviews it had received soon after its release, and I've never been so rewarded by listening to the opinions of book reviewers. The Orchard captivatingly chronicles the efforts of Adele Crockett Robertson, a pioneering newspaperwoman, to save her family's New England farm during the depression. It's a memoir that reads like a novel . . . and one that almost never was. It was published posthumously, after Robertson's daughter Betsey found the unpublished manuscript after her mother's death. This is by far one of the most riveting, interesting, memoirs I've ever read. No Grisham or Clancy novel ever made me turn the pages faster, and the lyrical prose is its own reward.

posted 06/30/2001
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