![]() ![]() While Eventide can be read as a stand alone novel, I think it probably helps to have read Plainsong first, if only to understand the touching back story behind Victoria and the McPheron brothers. And there, in the kitchen of their farmhouse, was Victoria Roubideaux, the unmarried mother whom they had taken in two years earlier. Which is why reading Eventide, the second in the series, was so enjoyable: from the moment I opened the first page it was like being reacquainted with old friends.Īlong with the evocative descriptions of rural Colorado - “The blue sandhills in the far distance low on the low horizon, the sky so clear and empty, the air so dry” - there were the lovely old McPheron brothers, Harold and Raymond, scraping their boots on the porch before going indoors. I loved the story so much that I raced through it in a matter of days and then felt completely bereft, because I wanted to spend more time with those wonderful characters. ![]() Fiction – Kindle edition Picador 300 pages 2005.Ī couple of months ago you may remember that I read - and fell in love with - Kent Haruf’s Plainsong, the first in a loose trilogy of novels set in Holt, Colorado. ![]()
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