" Surely a spinning wheel -- not a typewriter -- turned out this shimmering story ... .You will not have loved a young girl so much since Johanna Spyri ' s Heidi . " -- Charlotte Observer
" Few novels glow with such warmth and delicate grace ... . Felice is a modest miracle of goodly feelings. " -- Kansas City Star
" Style and craft are alive and well and in this book, a novel that uplifts, praises and illuminates the human spirit ... . Felice is the work of a writer who is in touch with the human heart. " -- Raleigh News and Observer
" A warmly intimate, funny first novel ... Charming ... and Sister A. is a pip! " -- Kirkus Reviews
"Surely a spinning wheel--not a typewriter--turned out this shimmering story....You will not have loved a young girl so much since Johanna Spyri's
Heidi." --
Charlotte Observer "Few novels glow with such warmth and delicate grace....
Felice is a modest miracle of goodly feelings." --
Kansas City Star "Style and craft are alive and well and in this book, a novel that uplifts, praises and illuminates the human spirit....
Felice is the work of a writer who is in touch with the human heart." --
Raleigh News and Observer "A warmly intimate, funny first novel...Charming...and Sister A. is a pip!" --
Kirkus Reviews
The normally calm L'Academic du Sacre Sang, the home--and world--of the adolescent Felice, is disrupted by the arrival of an enigmatic, tongueless man rescued from the sea, in a story set on the island of Nova Scotia. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.