I love my job. Reviewing books is like hunting for treasure. Every once in a great while I find a real gem, something I know will become a bestseller and will probably be made into a movie. That's how I feel about Some Glad Morning, a novel by Gary C. Horton. Read it and you'll see what I mean.
Some Glad Morning, by Gary C. Horton, is, quite frankly, a marvelous story. It's a novel with legs, as they used to say in publishing. At first glance, Some Glad Morning might appear to be simply a remarkable love story. It is a remarkable love story and I promise it will melt your heart, but it's also the story of a young man making his way against horrific odds.
Some Glad Morning is rich with wonderful and sometimes quirky characters. It's like stepping into another world that is both magical and familiar too. This is a story well told that you will want to tell others about. This is one novel you can brag about reading before the world discovered it.
The hero is Ransom MacTavish, a poor farm boy from South Carolina, who joins the Army to earn cash for his destitute family. It's the spring of 1918 and Ransom is quickly sent to France to fight in World War I. An assault across no man's land goes horribly wrong and Ransom is trapped in a shell hole with a dying officer.
The young lieutenant has carried into combat the love letters from his fiancee, Elizabeth. Elizabeth is the daughter of a wealthy Charleston planter. The young officer's last request is to hear the letters from Elizabeth read to him. In what can only be described as a most heartbreaking scene, Ransom reads to the young man as he dies. Afterward, Ransom finds comfort in the letters too and believes he has fallen in love with Elizabeth.
Ransom returns from the war a changed man and pursues Elizabeth with all his soul. But, he is poor and she is the daughter of a wealthy planter. To make matters worse, Ransom must content with a devilish competing suitor, relentless racism, overwhelming poverty , entrenched stupidity and, at times, his own arrogance.
But, through the delightfully quirky wisdom of an eccentric Civil War veteran and the endearing courage of a pregnant runaway, Ransom finds his way through the fickle turns of love. Not only does Ransom find his way, but his trials forge in him courage to bet everything on his heart.
Like so much of Some Glad Morning, the ending resonates with such depth you will not easily forget it. When you read Some Glad Morning, you'll think to yourself time after time, 'This would make a wonderful film.' I have no doubt it will be made into a movie. It's already been made into an audio book.
Some Glad Morning, by Gary C. Horton, is, quite frankly, a marvelous story. It's a novel with legs, as they used to say in publishing. At first glance, Some Glad Morning might appear to be simply a remarkable love story. It is a remarkable love story and I promise it will melt your heart, but it's also the story of a young man making his way against horrific odds.
Some Glad Morning is rich with wonderful and sometimes quirky characters. It's like stepping into another world that is both magical and familiar too. This is a story well told that you will want to tell others about. This is one novel you can brag about reading before the world discovered it.
The hero is Ransom MacTavish, a poor farm boy from South Carolina, who joins the Army to earn cash for his destitute family. It's the spring of 1918 and Ransom is quickly sent to France to fight in World War I. An assault across no man's land goes horribly wrong and Ransom is trapped in a shell hole with a dying officer.
The young lieutenant has carried into combat the love letters from his fiancee, Elizabeth. Elizabeth is the daughter of a wealthy Charleston planter. The young officer's last request is to hear the letters from Elizabeth read to him. In what can only be described as a most heartbreaking scene, Ransom reads to the young man as he dies. Afterward, Ransom finds comfort in the letters too and believes he has fallen in love with Elizabeth.
Ransom returns from the war a changed man and pursues Elizabeth with all his soul. But, he is poor and she is the daughter of a wealthy planter. To make matters worse, Ransom must content with a devilish competing suitor, relentless racism, overwhelming poverty , entrenched stupidity and, at times, his own arrogance.
But, through the delightfully quirky wisdom of an eccentric Civil War veteran and the endearing courage of a pregnant runaway, Ransom finds his way through the fickle turns of love. Not only does Ransom find his way, but his trials forge in him courage to bet everything on his heart.
Like so much of Some Glad Morning, the ending resonates with such depth you will not easily forget it. When you read Some Glad Morning, you'll think to yourself time after time, 'This would make a wonderful film.' I have no doubt it will be made into a movie. It's already been made into an audio book.
About the Author:
I enjoyed reading Some Glad Morning so much, I later listened to the audio book while flying from Atlanta to Portland. Some Glad Morning is available through Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition. If you would prefer to listen to the audio book, you can get heret: Some Glad Morning Audio Book.
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